We faced a dilemma in deciding what to run on these pages this month, with only one subject occupying community pharmacy teams for now. With the current challenges in mind, here, with some minor adaptations, is a module on personal resilience from 2016. The original referenced British psychologist Richard Wiseman’s general explanation for the collective sense of urgency which leaves people time-crunched, stressed and overwhelmed. We are way beyond that at the present time.