More Than Bouncing Back: A New Take on Resilience with Lucy Wooldridge

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If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! S4 E In this episode of The Secrets of Learning and Development, Julia and Valerie are joined by Lucy Wooldridge, accredited master coach and founder of Resilience with Lucy, whose work focuses on mindset, emotional literacy and redefining what it means to be resilient. Lucy shares her early experiences working in addiction and mental health services, and how those years shaped her belief that resilience isn’t about endurance it’s about awareness, adaptability and learning to pause. She discusses the power of emotional literacy, how NLP helps reframe limiting beliefs, and introduces the lesser-known benefits of auricular acupuncture as a tool for reducing stress and supporting wellbeing at work. This is an honest and insightful conversation about compassion, reframing what strength really looks like, and helping both individuals and organisations move from pressure to possibility. Key Takeaways Resilience isn’t about pushing through - it’s about adapting, pausing and choosing differently. Lucy challenges the outdated view that resilience means constant endurance.

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