Resilience Is Always Needed
Resilience – capacities to cope with any distress and bounce back from any disaster – is as necessary for our well-being as the current coronavirus pandemic is disruptive to it.
Here are suggestions for immediate resources to strengthen your coping skills and strategies, and to deepen your trust that you can cope with anything, anything at all.
Some suggestions are very practical and immediate, some more for the long haul. There are many additional tools and exercises, audio recordings and video interviews freely available elsewhere on www.lindagraham-mft.net. And links below to others’ resources as well, an abundance of support. Dive in and thrive.
For right now:
Resilience Is Always Needed
Basics of resilience and tips on using the wisdom of the body to recover it
April 7, 2020
Resilience Expert Offers Three Ways to Tap into the Wisdom of the Body
Practices to meet the current chaos of life with the deep knowing that you have the strength to work with it all
Mindful magazine article by Linda Graham
April 8, 2020
Mindful Live Practice
15 minute guided practices to calm nervous system
April 10, 2020
Parenting Was Hard Enough Already
Links to excellent resources for parenting during the pandemic
April 28, 2020
Haven-ing – One of the Best Practices Ever to Restore Calm and Well-Being
April 30, 2020
Plowing through the Day with Gratitude
Being grateful for everything that is going more than all right to help us plow through despair when things are going terribly wrong.
May 6, 2020
For a little more depth and breadth:
Shit Happens. Shift Happens, Too. Resilience in the Face of Disruption
How to cultivate the 6 C’s of Coping: Calm, Compassion, Clarity, Connection, Competence, Courage
March 30, 2020
An Imagined Letter to Humans
from COVID-19
An eloquent plea to use the current crisis to “wake up” to solving the underlying problematic conditions of our world today
April 10, 2020
Coping with Setbacks and Shutdowns – Shifting from Stymied and Stuck to Engaged and Empowered
A practical exercise in shifting from a fixed-stuck mindset to an empowered-growth mindset
April 13, 2020
The Personal and the Poignant in a Time of Pandemic
People experience living and dying so differently in these times
April 21, 2020
Dangers and Opportunities in this Pandemic
A poetic wake-up call on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
April 22, 2020
We Are Not in the Same Boat
Poetic reflection and practice in broadening our perspective
April 27, 2020
Quick Links to other experts' excellent offerings:
Three Tips from a Therapist for Calming Your Coronavirus Anxiety
From Lindsey Antin at Greater Good Science Center, U.C. Berkeley
April 14, 2020
Resilience During a Time of Fear
Three effective practices from Rick Hanson, PhD
March 18, 2020
Resilience in Challenging Times
Tami Simon of Sounds True interviews experts on mindfulness, compassion, and resilience
Ongoing
Resilience and Coping
Many excellent articles and research studies from positive psychology.com
You can start with How to Beat Stress, Trauma, and Adversity with Resilience
April 20, 2020
How to Stop Feeling So Helpless During Quarantine
Greater Good Science Center offers excellent weekly posts on The Science of a Meaningful Life
April 27, 2020
Internationally revered meditation teacher Tara Brach has posted her own Pandemic Care Resources page with many excellent guided meditations
Ongoing
For the deeper, broader perspective:
Webinar
Virtual Lunch Together: Linda Graham and Michael Kerman
Leading Edge Seminars, Toronto, Canada
One-hour video interview, April 1, 2020
Podcasts
Bouncing Back Like a Skilled Ninja
Full Pre-Frontal: Exploring the Mysteries of Executive Function
One-hour interview Linda Graham with Sucheta Kamath, CEO of Cerebral Matters,
April 10, 2020
One hour interview Linda Graham with Michelle Chalfant,
March 20, 2020
Video Interviews
Jonah Paquette, PhD
Remembering What Really Matters Strengthens Our Resilience
Christine Carter, PhD
The Need for Resilience Is Not a Surprise: Make Your “If/Then” Plans
Ron Siegal, PhD
Why Some People Bounce Back Quickly, Even Heroically
Elisha Goldstein, PhD
Tara Brach, PhD
Loving Awareness in the Present Moment Is Foundational to Our Resilience
Christopher Germer, PhD