From surviving to thriving: Developing personal and academic resilience

This resource can help you move from merely surviving your post secondary experience to actually thriving by helping you build resilience and plan for stressful situations. Developing a plan to get through potentially stressful situations can have a positive impact on both your personal and academic life. Understanding how other people deal with stress can also improve your ability to be objective about how their actions may impact you. If we recognize that we all respond to stressors in our own way, we can also recognize that behaviours of another person, which may seem inappropriate or problematic, could be that individual’s own struggle to deal with stress or adversity. Having a high level of resilience does not mean you will avoid stress. It means you will be able to adapt to it and recover more effectively from it.