Life is never completely smooth and easy. Along with bruised shins and skinned knees, we all experience hurt feelings from time to time. Perhaps we got left out of the game, or our best friend decided to hang out with somebody else. What do you do in a situation like this? How can you learn to be emotionally resilient?

Just as children learn how to apply first aid for cuts and scratches, they should learn about emotional first aid for minor psychological injuries. But usually they don’t. In fact, most adults are clueless about how to treat small emotional wounds. The appropriate preventive steps can keep such slights from turning into big psychological problems because they were neglected.

Now you can learn about the emotional first aid that can help short-circuit rumination, overcome loneliness and turn failure into an opportunity for self-discovery.

Guy Winch, PhD, is a psychologist and author. His books include The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem along with his most recent: Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure and Other Everyday Hurts. 

His website: http://www.guywinch.com/

He also writes the Squeaky Wheel blog at PsychologyToday.com

You can also find him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/guywinch

His TED Talk, Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid, is among the top 5 most inspirational TED Talks on ted.com. You can find a link to it here.

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