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Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health

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6 weeks

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Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

Have you ever wondered how you might be able to lead a more fulfilling and resilient life? Perhaps you want to feel at ease more often than you feel stressed, but you don’t know how? Maybe you find yourself in a place where it’s difficult to consider another perspective or find a solution to a problem you’re having?

If you’ve ever felt stressed, burned out, anxious or sad, you’re not alone. These moments are challenging and make it difficult to find a way forward. However, you can use science-backed tools to help manage these experiences and the emotions that come along with them. Regardless of any personal or professional obstacles you are facing, Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health will help you use applied psychology and five proven skills to transform your feelings of stress, anxiety, and burn out into mental strength.

With a focus on proven psychology philosophies and science-driven skills to overcome challenges, Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health breaks down five core components to creating better stress management habits. A practical overview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) will give you a foundation for building your resilient skillset. By recognizing your own cycle of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors (TEB), you will be able to shift your perspective. To infuse energy back into a lackluster day, a “Charge Up Plan” will be the resource you can call on. When life feels scary, there are too many choices, and you’re tempted by avoidance, you will know the exact steps to face your fears and a dependable method for problem solving.

We all face challenging decisions and experience stressful situations at some point in our lives. Building mental strength and personal resilience is possible when you focus on implementing simple but powerful tools in your everyday life.

Become your most resilient self with Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health.

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Dr. Luana Marques

Dr. Luana Marques is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Founder and Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and former President of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. With two decades of research on anxiety, avoidance, and decision-making under pressure, she is recognized as a leading expert in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBTs) and the creator of the Bold Move® framework — a science-backed approach to moving through discomfort and taking action when the path ahead is unclear.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed book Bold Move: A 3-Step Plan to Transform Anxiety into Power, which translates decades of clinical science into practical tools anyone can use. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Good Morning America, and Face the Nation, and she is a frequent guest on top podcasts including The Mel Robbins Podcast and Ten Percent Happier.

Dr. Luana's mission is simple: equip everyone, everywhere, with the science-backed skills to thrive. Connect with her @DrLuanaMarques

This course strengthened my professional practice by providing a rigorous, evidence-based framework to understand resilience not only as an individual skill, but as a capacity that can be intentionally cultivated and transferred to others. The course reinforced my commitment to grounding leadership and social action in mental health literacy, ensuring that resilience is approached with both ethical responsibility and practical relevance.

Elena María

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