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Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on her conversation from last week with Susan Stern.  Susan shared several hands-on tips regarding resilience and its importance during the caregiving journey.  Resilience is the capability to recover quickly from difficulties and Rayna provides the following suggestions for building resiliency:

• Learn what your “WHY” is for your caregiving journey.
• Be sure not to do things because of guilt.
• Understand and set your boundaries and be willing to review them and change or offer alternative options.
• Are you feeling walked on or taken advantage of? Evaluate what is happening so that changes can be made, and boundaries can be drawn.
• Give yourself permission to set limits.
• Boundaries will be pushed but having them established allows you to build resilience.
• Reframing is switching the way you perceive something by looking at it from a different view. What can you reframe to experience the benefits?