By Jancee Dunn

For the last few weeks, I’ve been dealing with emergencies both big and small. My heart and mind have been racing as I bolt from work, to a friend in crisis, to my mother, who has been sick.

I do not feel as though I’m flourishing.

But adversity is a part of life, and you can flourish through it, according to two experts from the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Richard Davidson, the center’s founder and director, and Cortland Dahl, a scientist at the center, say that our ability to flourish comes not from life’s wins and losses, but from how we navigate them.

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