Seven Resiliencies

Most older child adoptees struggle with various issues as they are growing up and into adulthood. Resilient individuals overcome their past to become mature, successful adults. These seven resiliencies apply to anyone who has struggled through childhood to become an adult. How are you doing with each of these?

The Seven Resiliencies

Insight - asking tough questions and giving honest answers.

Independence - distancing emotionally and physically from the sources of trouble in one's life.

Relationships - making fulfilling connections to other people.

Initiative - taking charge of problems.

Creativity - using imagination and expressing oneself in art forms.

Humor - finding the comic in the tragic.

Morality - acting on the basis of an informed conscience.

The Resilient Self: How Survivors of Troubled Families Rise Above Adversity (Villard, 1993 By Steven Wolin, M.D. & Sybil Wolin, Ph.D.