Humans are endlessly adaptive, yet persistently stubborn. Despite how desperately we want to make changes in our lives, we often find ourselves resorting back to the same familiar patterns and unhelpful coping strategies. If we want to make sustainable changes and reach our goals, we need to start with learning how we, as individuals and as humans, have come to adapt and cope in our lives thus far.

Using an interdisciplinary-mindset, we can gain insight into how we make sense of ourselves and the world around us, thereby allowing us to use our adaptive qualities and strengths to our advantage.

We don’t need to be bound for an eternity of anxious exhaustion, obsessive and compulsive tendencies, imbalanced nervous systems, or burnt-out family systems and parent-child dynamics.

We can learn to think more clearly, see ourselves more accurately, and feel more confident navigating the currents of our own internal dialogues and our external worlds. We have the power to create our own versions of adaptive wellness.