Growing Resilience!
At Growing Space for Health and Wealth, we help people identify their transformational goals, values, and gifts. We also help people identify their needs so they can meet them and live a life of abundance. This combination leads to true resilience.
Survival mechanisms are necessary at times when we need to push through difficulty to get something done. However, this takes a toll on our resources of body, mind, emotions, and spirit, leaving us feeling disengaged and unsafe. This can lead to burnout. Resilience, on the other hand, enhances our ability to adjust and recover from difficulty, leaving us not only engaged and safe but also eager to move forward.
The first step is to dispel the myth that self-care is selfish. It is fundamental to knowing our needs, which helps us in setting and maintaining boundaries. Boundaries that help us meet our needs and feel good about ourselves and our relationships with others. Learning to maintain boundaries is key to resilience. Saying “no” or “stop” to our own negative self-talk, thoughts, or belief systems is very empowering. Affirming ourselves regularly gives us the power to define how we talk about, think about, and what we believe about ourselves—all fundamentals in building resilience.
Always and in all ways, practice Gentleness—unconditional love and acceptance of self. Learning these tools is not always easy, but they are skills that can be learned and practiced. Mental health professionals have been using them for decades. All of this learning and transformation happens in the present moment. So it is important to learn to be grounded, present, and connected to our whole self in every moment. When we are able to put these tools together and use them consistently, this is when we arrive at resilience.
Please visit our newly revitalized website to see if our online weekly (at your own pace) self-study programs or our group workshops would meet your needs. We are also interested in working with like-minded agencies to help their staff grow resilience together. We are happy to discuss group packages.
The Wellness Team
growingspace88@gmail.com | 780-803-4224
www.growingspaceforhealthandwealth.com
