Key Elements of Emotional Fitness: Part 3 - Resiliency

Untrigger Yourself by Vivir Emotional Fitness Institute

In this episode of the Untrigger Yourself podcast, Dr. Peter Hercules and Katrina Hercules explore the third pillar of emotional fitness: resiliency. They discuss resilience as the capacity to recover strength and confidence after setbacks, emphasizing its role in transforming adversity into growth. Resilient individuals, they explain, don’t just survive challenges—they grow stronger through them.

This episode highlights why resiliency is a cornerstone of emotional fitness, focusing on its profound impact on life quality. Dr. Hercules explains how life’s challenges are inevitable, but our ability to recover and adapt largely determines our outcomes. Without resiliency, even minor difficulties can destabilize us, leading to fragility and missed opportunities.

The conversation delves into the importance of nurturing emotional strength through self-awareness, practice, and incremental challenges. Resiliency, they emphasize, is like emotional muscle: it must be built deliberately and from a strong foundation. They explore the concept of "anti-fragility," or growing stronger from hardship, and address the limitations of strategies like exposure therapy, advocating instead for addressing root causes to create true emotional stability.

Through practical insights and powerful analogies, Dr. Hercules and Katrina illuminate how resiliency allows us to live fully, not just enduring life’s hardships but thriving through them. The episode concludes with a reminder that resilience is within all of us—it's a choice to rise and grow.

The Untrigger Yourself podcast is meant to build on Vivir's mission to heal the impacts of trauma and spread the message that enduring emotional distress from outdated responses is not necessary. Through insights, stories, and reflections, this podcast uncovers the immense potential for personal growth, well-being, and emotional fitness that lie beyond our triggered responses.

Join Vivir founder, Dr. Peter Hercules, and his daughter and co-founder, Katrina Hercules, as they host this biweekly podcast exploring the wide world of emotional fitness.