21 Days to Resilience

Claude M. Steele, “The Psychology of Self-Affirmation: Sustaining the Integrity of the Self,” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985).

DR. ZELANA MONTMINY is a positive psychologist and health and wellness expert

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Dr. Montminy is a member of the American Psychological Association, is a consultant for the Institute for Applied Positive Research, and serves on several boards, including the Pacific Region of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and the program advisory board of the Respect Institute

She holds master’s and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology with a specialization in health and a focus in positive psychology, and she studied nutrition at Cornell University.

I recently came across a fascinating study that, by interpreting brain images, showed how people perceive and treat their future selves differently from their present selves.

They mistake happiness for only feeling happy thoughts and feelings, and they confuse resilience for never truly experiencing pain.

is that people are inundated with being told to “think positive,” so they’ve become afraid of the negative.

Belief is incredibly powerful. When we believe in something, for right or wrong, it becomes our truth. Positive, goal-oriented beliefs—that you can achieve success, that you can be happy, that you can do what you set out to do, that you can bounce back from adversity—set the foundation for your life.