Building Your Own Resiliency
Because resiliency is about skills you can always get stronger and better at bouncing back from tough situations.
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Taking Care
All Together Now: Resiliency
A resilient self concept tells us that we are loved, capable, and can handle it.
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Taking Charge: I Am Capable
Parenting for resiliency — not success or happiness — has room for all human experiences.
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I am Lovable: Resiliency in Relationships
The second part of resiliency is healthy, supportive relationships that tell us that we are lovable.
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I Can Handle It: Emotional Regulation
The entire You Are Not Your Mother membership community is built on resiliency research because I think the best thing that we can do as parents is raise our kids to be resilient. Happiness, success — those are nice goals but a whole bunch of that is out of our control. I mean, look at
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Blocked
The difficulty is … that you’ve got to get something on paper. It’s the only rule … that you must get something down on paper so that you can look at it and start to work on it. All the writer’s block consists of is that sensory that happens before the pencil hits the paper
The Labyrinth of Life
When I was twenty I was dating someone who was sober and so I was attending Al-Anon meetings both to support him and because my (also sober) best friend was encouraging me to go. At that time in my life I had this idea that getting sober was an event with a before (drinking) and
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You’re amazing
Hey, have I told you? I’m a big fan of yours. I mean it. I think you’re amazing. But wait, you say, I don’t even know you! How can I be a fan? I’m a fan because I know you’ve been through some stuff and you’re ready (and willing) to make it different. I know
Feeling like too much
I’ve been thinking about how easy it is to get the message that whatever we are, we are not enough. Or we are way too much.
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Ask for what you need and want
For women particularly there is such a strong message that we must be self-sacrificing. And for mothers, oh golly, it’s all about how much we give away without complaining.
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