SUMMARY - This podcast dives into what resilience is and why it's essential for parents of kids with challenging behavioral symptoms to not only understand what it is, but steps they can take to build it each day.

TAKEAWAYS:

• It is imperative as parents of complex kids with intense needs that you understand what it is and how to build it each day.
• Resilience is what allows us to move through difficult emotions like grief, sadness, and resentment.
• Resilience is something we all have access to, something we can cultivate within us each day.
• "Grit" or "soldiering on" chips away at resilience over time
• Honoring your response to the situation at hand and offering yourself self-compassion builds resilience
• Getting support, one-to-one or through community is essential for building resilience, especially when experiencing compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout.
• Ways to build resilience: find your "people" (be in community), practice self-compassion, move your body, breath work

RESOURCES:

• The Resilience Room Membership Community
• FREE (downloadable) Weekly Plan for Nervous System Care
• Reconsidering What It Means to Be Resilient (blog post)
• Kristin Neff: Self-compassion resources

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