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Dr. Kelly Lambert chats brain health, depression & prevention on The Radical Responsibility Podcast

21 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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This YouTube podcast episode (Radical Responsibility Podcast, July 21, 2023) features Dr. Kelly Lambert discussing resilience and brain health. In this excerpt she defines resilience as the ability to adapt to stress and recover, using a slinky metaphor to illustrate returning to baseline after being stretched and emphasizing recognizing stress, maintaining healthy coping/emotional regulation, and restoring functioning.

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But resilience comes in, and we view that as how well we can adapt to this stress and recover from it. Sometimes with my students, I talk about a slinky. If you think about that childhood toy that you would spread apart, then when you would let go, it would come back to its original form. And if it was kind of stretched out of shape, maybe it didn't. But how we can keep our brains healthy and our coping and emotions and bodies healthy so that we can recognize stress, because that's important, but then adapt and change so that we can function better and come back to maybe a baseline where we can respond to the world in a more efficient and healthy way.