Have you ever heard of a “motto” before? A motto is a short, punchy phrase that helps to guide you in everything you do. For example, a good resilience motto might be: “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again.” When I say “if…
Today let’s talk about what we can say to ourselves, how to hold our bodies and what we can do to face our challenges when situations get tough. Did you know what we say to ourselves in our heads- or what we say out loud…
We have small and big problems to solve everyday. We need to try something new, figure out how to do a skill, finish a project for school when we have a short amount of time to do it, reach something on a high shelf- and…
Think about an elastic band. You can stretch it out, twist it, pull it– and what happens when you stop stretching it? It bounces back. Just like an elastic band, resilience allows us to “bounce back” when we are pulled out of our comfort zone….