How To Push Past Giving Up

It’s an odd sensation to feel warm tears run down your cheeks while underwater. I remember the first time it happened to me. The workout was just above my skill level and I was doubting my abilities. My swim coach had set a workout that required me to consistently swim a certain distance at a […]

4 Resilience Lessons From A Seven-Year-Old In Brain Surgery

I have a remarkable seven-year-old daughter. Yes, she has her many weaknesses and idiosyncrasies (don’t we all?), but I am amazed and impressed by her resilience in so many ways. My daughter started having seizures in the first few months of her life. We have been in and out of Primary Children’s hospital with EEGs […]

How to Develop Powerful, Intentional Resilience

I began my morning walking into the dentist’s office. Now, I recognize for many people, just this action is a stress trigger. I am not one of those people. For me, the dentist’s office is associated with warm memories. This is because my dad was a dentist. As a child, going to the dentist’s office […]

How Can I Possibly Forgive?

Anger bubbled up from somewhere deep inside me. It was like magma being pushed to the surface from the core, and I felt the heat of it spread through my body. It’s been over twenty years, I thought. How could this possibly elicit this much of an emotional response now? I was at an EMDR […]

Don’t Let Your Past Define Your Present

One of the greatest challenges with trauma is how it hijacks our perspective in the moment. It’s like a time machine, constantly jerking us back into the past at the slightest trigger. We end up consistently reliving the worst moments of our lives. This becomes a major barrier in healing our trauma. To understand how […]

How To Raise Resilient Children

Our world has changed dramatically over the last 30 to 40 years. The physical and social environment that our children are growing up in is both significantly more challenging and profoundly easier. This combination has unfortunately cultivated a major decline in the resilience of the younger generations. It is no wonder that Resilience has become […]