This week, we talk about how to cultivate emotional resilience by listening to the stories we're telling ourselves and learning to "talk back" and reframe unkind or unhelpful ones. (1:15) "What's filling our buckets?" segment. (2:45) We talk about Elena Aguilar's book 'Onward' and what advice she shared about emotional resilience for educators. (6:45) What do the stories we tell ourselves have to do with "mindfulness"? (9:15) We talk about how our interpretations of events increase or decrease our resilience. (11:00) We explain several types of unhelpful stories to watch out for. (15:00) We offer four kinds of "talk back" questions that we can use when we're telling ourselves a negative story. (16:45) Takeaways.

Tools we talk about: Poster—Questions for Challenging Negative Thoughts