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Resilience Quotes
“While resilience helps us recover from loss and trauma, it offers much more than that. True resilience fosters well-being, and an underlying sense of happiness, love, and peace.” Rick Hanson.
“We are more resilient when we are both giving and receiving support. How are you offering support to others? It is not resilient to grit your teeth and hide your own needs for connection.” Carole Pemberton.
When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don’t go away; instead, they own us, they define us. Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending—to rise strong, recognise our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, Yes. This is what happened. Brene Brown.
“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.” Brene Brown.
“Perhaps, resilience, as a process, could succinctly be summarised as the capacity to spontaneously foster feelings of safety in both self and other.” Stephen Porges.
“The narratives highlighted the possibility that resiliency might be a product of a nervous system with sufficient resources to move out of the self-oriented focus of threat and stress to an other-oriented focus of feelings of safety that naturally emerge into actions of sociality, and compassion.” Stephen Porges
“The ability to return to regulation is the essence of resilience.” Deb Dana.
10 guidepost for wholehearted living:
- Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think.
- Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism.
- Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness
- Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark
- Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty
- Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison
- Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth
- Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle
- Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and “supposed to”
- Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and “always in control”. Brene Brown.
“Resilience is teachable, learnable, recoverable, and takes practice and awareness.” Deb Dana.
Determinants of resilience include a host of biological, psychological, social and cultural factors that interact with one another to determine how one responds to stressful experiences.
Definitions Of Resilience
Physical Resilience
Resilience refers to the capacity of a dynamic system to adapt successfully to disturbances that threaten the viability, the function, or the development of that system.
Resilience involves an active decision, like sobriety, that must be frequently reconfirmed. That decision is to keep moving forward.
The process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress.
The capacity to remain flexible in our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours when faced by life disruption, or extended periods of pressure, so that we emerge from difficulty stronger, wiser, and more able.
Mental Resilience
To be able to effectively set goals and consistently achieve them, without getting distracted. You see challenges, change, and adversity as opportunities rather than threats and thus are likely to be flexible and agile.
Emotional Resilience
The ability to generate positive emotion and the ability to recover from negative emotion.
Spiritual Resilience
Spiritual resilience is the ability to sustain one’s sense of self and purpose through a set of beliefs, principles or values while encountering adversity, stress, and trauma by using internal and external spiritual resources.
In addition to self-awareness, it implies awareness of our relationship to the transcendent, to each other, to the earth and all beings.
Alex is a certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP) and has a MSc in Personalised Nutrition. He is also a breathwork facilitator with a background in personal training and massage therapy. He also runs The Resiliency Program - a 24 week program aimed at building physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual resilience.
