Coping classes: Building emotional resilience

Dr Harry Barry’s latest book, Emotional Resilience, addresses the topic of coping successfully with difficult experiences. Here, he explores seven common life situations where many people often struggle

Dr Harry Barry: ‘To learn to cope with failure, we must learn the skill of unconditional self-acceptance’ Pic: Fergal Phillips

Life is a rollercoaster ride full of peaks and troughs. We all love the peaks where the world is at our feet. But what do we do when down in the valleys, where the peaks seem a long way off? When the storms of life come roaring in and we are faced with significant challenges? Where our ability to duck and weave and adapt is tested to the full? How we cope will ...