This week: How to Build Resilience and Find Joy After Loss, a podcast conversation with Sheryl Sandberg and Oprah.
Sheryl Sandberg wrote Option B, Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy with Adam Grant, and authored Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
This 2017 interview about how to build resilience when facing hardship and loss feels particularly relevant today, as so many people face unprecedented challenges from both the pandemic and economic uncertainty. Sheryl wrote Option B to share what she learned about resilience after she suddenly lost her husband and realized she and her kids needed help.
Don’t push away hard emotions. Learn to “let the grief come when it comes.” We’re often disappointed with ourselves when hard emotions revisit us, over and over. We get “sad that we’re sad.” When you let yourself experience the emotions, rather than fight them, they’ll pass more quickly.
Practice Gratitude. Find three things you’re grateful for each day and write them down. “When you look for the good stuff, more good stuff shows up.” Notice positive, tiny moments throughout the day, rather than focusing on the “big stuff.”
Offering support to others. To help others who are grieving a loss, let them know they are not alone in their suffering. “We will get through this together.”
Starting a gratitude practice
If you feel like you need some help starting a gratitude practice, the Take Two Journal offers space to write down three things each day, for 21 days, and the Take Two 28 day course also helps you get started.
May we all deepen our resilience.
— Kate
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