When thinking about the ANZACS the qualities that come to mind include mateship and sacrifice along with courage, endurance and humour. These are the qualities that define us as a people. These are the qualities that will serve you well to successfully navigate through these difficult and uncertain times.

If overwhelm, anxiety or loneliness have been getting you down, there are a number of ways to draw from the spirit of the ANZACS, to reconnect to your sense of purpose, rekindle your determination to find a path forward and experience hope and realistic optimism.

It’s not that we need more resilience, which from a cynic’s perspective is seen as “let’s see how much more we can squeeze out of our people before they crack?”

If anything, it’s about creating sustainable resilience.

Adapting to change is something that’s always been inherently useful to us as humans and our adaptive nature has meant we’ve been able to survive changes to our circumstances or environment.

And that’s good because our resilience is an indicator of that adaptiveness.