This is what Reivich calls"active-destructive responding.".
The offense was nothing to get crazy about, Reivich admits.
Reivich gives her soldier-students four techniques that can help
reveal a person's iceberg.
A little later in the hotel conference room, Reivich is leading yet another exercise.
Reivich adds that resilience training is not a happiness program,
nor is it about turning everything into good news.
Reivich's iceberg, it turned out,
was a belief that her future husband should know her quirks and accommodate them.
In truth, the chatter during breaks suggests that every
cellphone in the hotel has been channeling Reivich during the nightly phone calls home, with generally good results.
In a conference room at the hotel, Karen Reivich, Ph.D., a University of Pennsylvania psychologist in flared pants
and patent-leather flats, is teaching soldiers how to thrive in a hostile world, both downrange in the war zone and back home at the dinner table.