Resilience – Learning From Mistakes and Adversity
The Resilience Mindset: Transforming Any Adversity into Learning and Growth
Resilience – bouncing back from adversity – is a complex, dynamic skillset developed over years of dealing with the hard things in life – losing one’s health, losing a relationship, […]
Things Happen Not Just TO Us, But Also FOR Us
A client came to see me because she felt adrift in her career. No direction, no spark. Then her 10 year-old daughter suddenly became very ill, and my client had […]
Transforming Adversity into Learning and Growth
I’ll be offering the Wished For Outcome exercise below, that rewires previously traumatizing memories in the brain, during the online webinar Catalyzing Brain Change: Transforming Adversity into Learning and Growth, […]
Bouncing Back – Bouncing Forward – Mastering Resilience in Either Direction
Years ago, when I told my brother Barry I was writing a book about resilience, he said, “Resilience…what’s that? Oh, I know…it’s bouncing back from the terrible.” That’s where I […]
Anticipatory Resilience
My friend Natalie Bell came up with the phrase “anticipatory resilience” the other day. I like it. I think it’s an important practice, to rehearse being resilient in situations coming […]
Realistic Optimism – the Goldilocks Sweet Spot of a Resilience Mindset
My friend Tracy, whose husband Dale suffered a minor stroke in February, (see Supporting Another Person’s Resilience – Brilliantly) is learning that tricky but essential sweet spot of a resilience […]
Resilience Becomes a Mindset
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche Well, that’s one way of looking at it. And we can reluctantly acknowledge the truth of what the […]
Choice v. Control – a Tricky Dance
It’s a tricky dance between the need to be responsible for the choices we make in our lives and the desire to control the outcome of those choices. If we’re […]
Realistic Optimism
I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving…the sound of people trying became the soundtrack of my life. – Michelle Obama Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., […]
Cultivating a Growth Mindset
Whenever I hear myself saying “I can’t do this!” I’ve made it a practice to immediately say, “but I am doing this. I may not be doing it well. I […]