Dr. Tara Narula

This is so important and we are not talking about it.

We're not educating about it.

We're not helping our patients manage it.

We are totally living in a world where we have a divide between psychology and clinical medicine.

We got to do a better job.

We cannot have a siloed world of psychology and clinical medicine and no one bridging this gap.

What's fascinating about resilience is it's not just a tool for healing, which the book is called The Healing Power of Resilience, but it is a tool for prevention.

So the more that you practice this tools of resilience and utilize this blueprint and this roadmap, the more likely you are to not...

go down the road of developing chronic disease because you are going to be less stressed and have less inflammation and have your lower levels of cortisol, less vascular reactivity of your blood vessels.

You are going to do those things we talked about that are going to keep you healthy, like exercising and eating well and sleeping well.

So it really is both prevention in terms of chronic disease and also a way that you can move out of a diagnosis or a disease process.

That flexibility of saying, you know, I thought my life was going down this course, but now it's going down a different course or direction.

And I'm okay with that.

But I'm not okay with that.

I know.

And that's where, you know, acceptance commitment therapy and CBT therapy and other forms of mindfulness and meditation can help.

But truly, you know, again, referencing back to Lucy Hone, who I talked about earlier, you know, she gave a great analogy of imagining you have these goalposts in front of you.

You're kicking the ball in a certain direction through the goal.

And she said she realized when her 12-year-old daughter died and she still had her husband and sons, like she had to live for them.

She had to keep going.