Thanks Jos Middleton from RFDS for such a helpful and informative presentation about resilience for mental health! The key takeaways to use daily in our lives are:
- Build a support network around you with positive kind people.
- Take time-out to practise mindfulness, intent and gratitude.
- Be aware of your values and maintain your boundaries, it's okay to say No.
- Respect other people's boundaries.
- Resilience grows from feeling the fear and doing it anyway! Resilience is what gives people the psychological strength to bounce back from difficult life events.
- The characteristics of reslience (people with resilience tend to)
- Sprinkle kindness and will come back to you
- Bring intention to self care activities
- Reflections
Thanks Jos Middleton from RFDS for such a helpful and informative presentation about resilience for mental health! The key takeaways to use daily in our lives are:
- Build a support network around you with positive kind people.
- Take time-out to practise mindfulness, intent and gratitude.
- Be aware of your values and maintain your boundaries, it's okay to say No.
- Respect other people's boundaries.
- Resilience grows from feeling the fear and doing it anyway! Resilience is what gives people the psychological strength to bounce back from difficult life events. Build it by:
- Embracing change
- Believe in yourself
- Step out of the comfort zone
- Turn up and give it a go
- Develop problem solving skills
- The characteristics of reslience (people with resilience tend to):
- Have emotional intelligence
- Keep calm in stressful situations
- Realistic with a touch of optimisim
- Trust yourself
- Demonstrate empathy
- Self-motivation
- Don't ask why, ask how
- Have a sense of purpose
- Sprinkle kindness and will come back to you
- Kind to others - we never know what is going on for someone else, slow down and really connect with others, ask how their day is going, do random acts of kindness.
- Kind to self - self care, time out, gratitude, mindfulness, boundaries, thoughts.
- Kind to country - tread lightly with purpose and awareness, connect with the strength from Mother Nature.
- Bring intention to self care activities
- Pause - embrace the intentional pause, connect to your heart space through the pause, slow everything down through the pause.
- Boundaries - through maintaining your boundaries you will shape a life that aligns with your values.
- Awareness - bring awareness to your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. By being more aware, you can increase confidence and become a better decision maker.
- Reflections
- Take some time to reflect on what you could do in the next 6 months to intentionally build your resilience.
How could you bring more kindness not only to others, but also to yourself?
