On today's episode, host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli talks about how to cope with stress, building resiliency, and the importance of taking a pause when things get tough.
Episode Highlights:
- Resiliency can be built over time because it's based on support and our behavior.
- Resilience is also based in our biology and how we react to "fight or flight" situations.
- Stress often induces negative emotions that can make it harder to cope.
- It is possible to think or act ourselves into a better mood.
- It's easy to externalize things, but externalizing things makes it harder to be resilient.
- Mindfulness, gratitude, and taking a pause are tactics to improve resiliency.
- Mindfulness can reduce the negative emotions that come from stress.
- You can be grateful for small things, and it can be helpful to write them down in a designated journal.
- Taking a pause can be helpful in moments of high stress.
3 Key Points:
- While resiliency is based in biology and our gut responses to tough situations, it can also be built over time.
- Resilience can mean the difference between being successful in today's environment, or being held back by ineffective ways of doing things.
- Mindfulness, gratitude, and taking a pause are tactics to improve resiliency.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "The only thing in life that's constant is change." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
- "People who demonstrate resilience believe that they have the potential for control over their lives." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
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