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Thanks, Lakshmi, for this useful post. Very helpful!

The pandemic and its aftermath have brought about new and intensified stressors for many people. Coping strategies that have worked in the past might not be as effective in the current situation. Self-assessment and self-care are essential in times like these. Here are some steps you can take to address these challenges: Self-Assessment: Take time to reflect on your current state of well-being and baseline resilience. Ask yourself how you're feeling physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Thank you for this thoughtful article, Lakshmi! And the timing is perfect. I sometimes wonder, in our age of extreme busy-ness, if there is such a thing as too much resilience. How do we learn to recognize when we have hit our healthy limits and then how to back off from the workload we have created for ourselves?

Thanks @Calandra Lindstadt . I would like to recommend that we consistently use the Feelings Continuum. Anywhere between 8 to 11 should be our indicator that we are at our healthy limits and we need to employ a combination of self-care that allows us to back off, get some space, re-think and re-approach. Hope this helps. Sadly we will always over-exert but perhaps we will now have a self-check that allows us to minimize the potential for resilience loss or depletion.

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