Building resilience is key to achieving good mental wellbeing as it helps us all deal with times of adversity. Celebrate your strengths, the key starting point to building resilience, is celebrating our strengths and recognising moments of negative self-talk. Practice positivity, actively practising gratitude is strongly associated with greater happiness, and can break patterns of negative thinking and encourage us to feel happier. Stay connected, relationships have a powerful impact on the way we think and feel throughout the day, social connections can help improve our ability to manage stress, anxiety and depression. Prioritise self-love, self-care is unique from person to person, and so is the frequency in which we practise it, engaging in activities that take care of our health and wellbeing is now regarded as an important aspect of recovery from illness. Feed your physical health, research suggests that physical activity significantly enhances resilience, regular exercise improves our cognitive function and emotional regulation, both vital for resilience.