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“What is resilience?”

ResilienceO ““Resilience is your ability to adapt and

recover after stress, adversity, trauma or tragedy” (Mayo Clinic, 2015).”

O “Resilience is not a trait that people either have or do not have. It involves behaviors, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone” (American Psychological Association, 2015).

Resilience:the ability to bounce back

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Support

Positive Self TalkHonesty

Reframing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BIye98Ryic

Self-esteem

Self-esteem is the disposition to experience oneself as being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and of being worthy of happiness. - Nathaniel Branden

Let Go of The Past:Metaphors and Healing

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Watt’s Motorboat and the wake

Wellness StrategiesReconciling Past: Wellness

Express gratitude for positive past experiences

Re-decide about early negative injunctions and self talk.

Create meaning from the past:

Personal mistakes: Goal is to forgive yourself concerning past mistakes- extend compassion to self. Discuss what meaning you can take from the experience.

Offences: address past offences against you by combining empathy/compassion with justice. What will be the consequence (psychologically, emotionally, behaviorally) of not forgiving? Discussion (catharsis and meaning) and boundaries (protection) are key.

“Every significant change comes from a perception shift not from behavior or attitude change” - Stephen R. Covey