What feeling resilient is like
Feeling resilient means you trust you can recover from setbacks. You might still be hurt or tired, but you know you'll come back from it.
Resilient or courageous?
Resilient is about recovering after something hard. Courageous is about facing it in the first place. Read more about feeling courageous.
Finding resilient on the feelings wheel
On the Feeling Wheel, resilient sits in the Calm group. Start in the middle of the wheel with calm, then move outwards to resilient. If it's close but not quite right, the other calm words below may fit better. It's also normal to feel more than one thing at once.
Other words in the Calm group
Calm words describe feeling steady, safe and able to cope.
- Confident Feeling sure of yourself
- Relaxed Feeling free from tension and at ease
- Peaceful Feeling calm and undisturbed
- Powerful Feeling strong and in control
- Relieved Feeling reassured after stress has passed
- Grounded Feeling stable and balanced emotionally
- Capable Feeling able and competent
- Content Feeling peaceful and satisfied
- Settled Feeling at ease with where things are
Name what you're feeling
Feeling Wheel puts all 118 of these words on one wheel. Tap the ones that fit, add a note if you like, and see your patterns over time. Free on iPhone and Android.