Supportive relationships

Grow your resilience by growing your support network.

It may seem like common sense to surround yourself with good people, but it actually improves your life – and your resilience – in many ways.

Supportive relationships:

Increase your self-esteem

Keep you from feeling lonely

Give you a sense of belonging

Lift you up when you’re down

Improve your communication skills

Make you more compassionate

What’s so important about healthy relationships is the way they create good feelings. The more you share, the more you bond. And the more you bond, the more you strengthen your relationships so you can get even more out of them. When you put good in, you get good out.

In the same way that positivity creates more positivity, when one person in the relationship has negative feelings, it’s hard to stop that negativity from spreading, until it finally breaks down the bond.

Put in the effort to maintain your support network. Set up a regular happy hour with coworkers or friends, start a book or walking club, volunteer together – just make time to nurture yourrelationships.