Thank you for all your amazing stories about your holiday experiences! You told me about frustrating relatives that you handled with better boundaries. You explained fractured families and how you hope to handle it next year….
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The holiday season certainly can bring a lot of hits to your resilience. So I wanted to take a minute to point out a boost that we all get. And that boost is common…
The best thing, in my opinion, about being an adult is choice. And it’s choice that makes us more resilient. This week I’m thinking about that choice in terms of high – and often…
What stressor is pressing for you right now? Really, take a minute to answer that for yourself. It’s a little like scanning your body to see how it feels – but you’re scanning your mind. This week I noticed that…
Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 54 years old and I’m pretty excited about it. My fifties have been as good as I thought they might be. As a dear friend about thirty years older than…
In the US we’ve just closed an election cycle and the results are in. What does resilience look like in the face of a clear winner and loser? The same thing it always does. Resilience is…
This weekend I made a biophysical mistake. I donated blood about 26 hours after getting my COVID shot. I didn’t break any of the blood donation rules to do it (except my partner would probably say the rule…
Last week I asked you about the experience of losing your resilience. So many people responded, well aware that this happens repeatedly and with some great observations about the earliest warning signs that they are not as ready to…
Last week I asked you about the experience of losing your resilience. So many people responded, well aware that this happens repeatedly and with some great observations about the earliest warning signs that they are not as ready to respond well as they’d like to be….
Great news – a lot of you are planning to vote! The responses that I got last week were overwhelming curious about one thing: “How do I get __________ to vote?” Some of you are wondering how to convince young…