Episode 87 - Mindful Resilience

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What, dear listener, does it mean to be “resilient,” and what, exactly, is “resilience” anyway? As many of us may find ourselves encountering a form of return, or re-emergence from (or event within!) pandemic life, we might be led to believe that resilience is something like grit, tenacity, or toughness while something difficult or downright traumatizing may be ongoing. We do live in a society that will encourage us to push on, power through and always be at the top of our game.

Interestingly, resilience isn’t grit. It’s not maintenance of the status quo. No, resilience, as the Oxford English Dictionary will tell you, is defined as follows:

The quality or fact of being able to recover quickly or easily from, or resist being affected by, a misfortune, shock, illness, etc.; robustness; adaptability.

Reading this definition, we’re led to notice that this thing isn’t about staying safe and functional during a trauma or difficulty at all! No, resilience isn’t about that. Resilience is about how you can bounce back. It’s not about not getting knocked down. It’s about who you want to be when you get back up. It’s about finding the shape of your life moving forward, not trying to keep things under our control along the way. Resilience is about re-emergence, and a gateways on how to do that, on how to start that process, are awareness, and communication.

We’ve talked on this podcast before about Non-Violent Communication, and we talk about meditation and awareness-building all the time. How do we practice and leverage these skills to build and employ resilience? In this episode, we talk about exactly that! We hope you enjoy!

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