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From toddlers climbing trees to retirees getting busy, experts share tips on coping well throughout lifeThe word resilience is slippery and hard to define, but it isn’t about “bouncing back”, says Dr Nihara Krause, consultant clinical psychologist and founder of teenage mental health charity stem4. “It’s about bouncing forward, finding how you might progress based on developing new tools and skills.”And it’s not just something to hone when young, but a lifelong pursuit, says Dr Julie Smith, clinical psychologist and author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: “Resilience is something we work on all the time – when people hit a certain life event that proves more demanding than their current coping strategies can meet, we’re learning new ways of coping, to bolster that resilience.” Continue reading...