Resilience As a Practice, Not a Personality Trait

Originally posted in our July 2025 Top of Mind Newsletter.

On the topic of developing resilience, this post from the Women’s Brain Health Initiative offers some essential tools to start your own practice.

Rather than waiting for adversity to “test” our strength, we can build resilience by cultivating curiosity, self-compassion, and reflective habits that help us understand our own reactions and reframe setbacks as sources of insight. This emphasis on deliberate reflection aligns closely with the Ice House framework’s focus on recognizing personal agency and learning from experience.

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