Resilience – Basics
Resilient Grieving
I read Resilient Grieving: Finding Strength and Embracing Life after a Loss that Changes Everything by Lucy Hone, PhD, while flying across the country to teach at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health last weekend. It’s an excellent integration of research on resilience and research on bereavement, enfolded in the author’s personal journey of working […]
A Rejuvenating Workshop-Vacation on Cape Cod
Thirty years of clinical practice, a full decade of teaching clinicians and lay folk how to cultivate resilience and bounce back from ordinary disappointments and extraordinary disasters, will come to a quiet close with The Resilience Mindset workshop at the Cape Cod Institute, June 27-July 1, 2022. One may stand on these shores and put […]
A Delightful Workshop-Vacation at Kripalu
Apparently when investigators asked the pilots, who made an emergency landing in January 2009 of US Airways flight 1549 on the freezing Hudson River in New York City after both engines were struck by birds, if they would do anything differently if they could do it over, the co-pilot quipped he would do the landing […]
Resilience Re-Visited
I’m teaching Cultivating a Resilience Mindset at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium this week. Tenth consecutive year, including online during the worst of the pandemic. My first in-person workshop since the pandemic shutdown two years ago. My final time teaching at the Symposium ever, retiring July 1, 2022. In fact, it was Michael Gelb, whom I […]
I Could Use a Moment of Something Working…
While navigating a week of snags and snafus about teaching online and recording podcasts, compounded by a family medical emergency, my friend and colleague Deb Dana said in our weekly Zoom call, “I could use a moment of something working.” Synchronistically, the confirmation of the re-routing of my flights the next day to teach at […]
Resilience as Bouncing Back, Bouncing Forward, Patiently Abiding
I recently had the privilege of creating a podcast for Coaches Rising on Patient Abiding: Fostering Individual and Collective Resilience. And in talking again with Joel Monk, with whom I share many mentors and colleagues, I heard myself think out loud that resilience isn’t just bouncing back, as I’ve taught from my book Bouncing Back, […]
Six Reliable Ways to Deal with Any Disaster
A friend was among 22,000 people evacuated earlier this month from a raging wildfire in the Sierra Nevada. The fire came within three miles of her home before it was contained. This morning she sent me images of the ash on their doorstep and told me of the hugs they gave the firefighters when they […]
From the Middle of a Whirlwind
Every once in a while, everything that needs to be done piles up on top of everything else. I’m coping, for sure, and things will get less congested in a few days. But to create something breathing space, I’m recycling a December 2016 newsletter that is still exceptionally relevant right now: Weather Difficult Times: Be […]
Updated Practices for Resilience for Right Now…and For the Long Haul
When I began posting practices for Resilience for Right Now…and For the Long Haul at the beginning of the pandemic (March 2020), I had no idea, none of us had any idea, how long, how longer than long, this pandemic would be impacting our lives, our resilience, our well-being. I last updated the website page […]
The Tree That Survived 9/11 – A Poignant Symbol of Resilience and Hope
I’ve posted about trees as the iconic metaphors for our own resilience before. Just as we’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, I discover a beautifully illustrated children’s picture book, This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth. It’s a true story, beautifully told, of a Callery […]