RESILIENCE, on Human Being with Dr. Susan - Episode 2, aired 10/18/25 on Sandcastle Radio, America's Hottest Online Variety and Music Station.

Resilience: Your Emotional Elasticity
Resilience isn’t about being immune to hardship. It’s about the ability to adapt when things get hard — to stretch, absorb the stress or change, then return (or re-settle) to a new normal.
Life brings change, difficulty, trauma, loss, and uncertainty. Resilience means you don’t get permanently “bent out of shape” — you shift, adjust, respond, and recover.

What Builds Resilience — Key Ingredients and Practices
Cultivate resilience through inner work, relationships, and lifestyle choices:
• Self-awareness and emotional honesty — noticing when you feel stressed, numb, reactive, overwhelmed; naming what you feel; allowing yourself to feel rather than suppressing emotion.
• Flexibility and adaptability — in small and big things. Practice flexibility in everyday aspects of life (routine, habits, minor changes) so when bigger disruptions come, you already have “muscle memory” for adapting. 
• Community and relationships — build and sustain supportive relationships so that when adversity hits, you have people you can rely on.
• Self-care and stress-management — consciously caring for your physical, emotional, and mental health.
• Accept change and uncertainty as natural parts of life — rather than resisting or fearing them, learn to meet them with openness, curiosity, and willingness to grow.
Elevating Resilience — Not a One-Time Fix, But an Ongoing PracticeResilience isn’t a switch you turn on once. It’s a habit, a set of capacities, a way of living and relating to life.
You build it over time — through small adjustments, repeated engagement, honest emotional work, community, and self-care.
When life presents hardship — loss, trauma, upheaval — resilience doesn’t make the pain vanish. It gives you the capacity to hold complexity, to grieve, to heal — and to find meaning or regeneration beyond the hardship.

About Dr. Susan Hendrich
Susan is a dynamic leadership coach, psychologist, and speaker with over 20 years of leadership and learning expertise. As the host of "Human Being with Dr. Susan," a new radio version of her popular DETV television show, she brings her energy and experience to the airwaves to explore what it truly means to thrive in the modern world.

Susan has a distinguished career guiding high-performing teams and facilitating organizational innovation. She has cultivated transformative cultures for a wide range of renowned organizations, including Nemours Children's Health, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, the Smithsonian Institution, and GlaxoSmithKline. Her work focuses on maximizing human potential and creating environments where people and teams can succeed.W
ith a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Susan's insights are grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior and psychology. She served as a clinical supervisor and faculty coordinator for one of the nation’s oldest APA-approved psychology training consortiums and was an invited speaker at the World Congress on Mental Health. For the past two decades, she has led thousands of leaders to unlock their potential through the power of authentic courage.

Susan is an avid photographer, painter, and genealogist who enjoys outdoor adventures with her family and friends. Her personal interests and love for learning outside the professional sphere inform her authentic approach to exploring the human experience with her listeners.

Her personal motto, "Ganbatte kudasai," is Japanese for "Always try your best."
Learn more:
www.youtube.com/@susanhendrich