Each day we face anxiety about the uncertainty in our lives. After a recent conversation with a friend, I realized some of the specific daily habits and beliefs I have developed over time and through therapy that help me stay centered in my positive self concept.

Changes in your financial life are inevitable, but building daily habits and practices can offer stability to help you weather them. In this episode, I share my recent experience and learnings.

I've auditioned for a role in a hilarious play with lots of physical comedy. I don't know if I got a role yet, but just in case I do, I've been focusing on preparing myself by taking daily walks, eating whole foods, and going to bed at the same time each night. Wish me luck!

The first 6 months of 2024 have just concluded. Are you where you want to be on your resilience journey? If not, that's okay - I'm not either. So I have decided to refocus on my goals in building daily habits aligned with the 5 facets of designed resilience. First, I am focusing on my physical well being. What will you focus on?

Where Designed Resilience is concerned, Community is defined as a few select relationships where you know the other person and you are confident that you can be authentic and vulnerable. There is hardly a better place to get to know a person or to see if they fit in your Community than to travel with them. Here's my experience with 2 friends on my first Virgin Voyage.

Showering can be a great way to connect with your body, whether you are rinsing off or doing all the things.

An unexpected reduction in force at work is a difficult surprise to swallow, but sometimes music you've tuned out suddenly becomes the path to moving forward. Learn how from my conversation with Beth Bush, a dear friend and inspiration to me.

In this episode, I tell you about my personal debt journey and how working to remove debt from my life has strengthened my financial stability so that I can design my resilience.

One of the five facets of Designed Resilience is Self Concept, defined as the belief in your ability to successfully navigate the situations in your life. If you're still breathing, you have a 100% success rate and should have a strong, positive self concept.

The last 6 months of my life have been a major upheaval, but daily practices in the areas of self-concept, finances, community, physical well-being, and personal growth and development have kept me from falling off the edge. Today's episode is an introduction to the overall concepts that help me design my resilience.