Vicarious Resilience

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Everyone makes mistakes in their thinking sometimes.  Assumptions can be right or wrong, but how will you know   Learn 3 technique to help you 'Untwist Your Thinking'  Included in this episode is me reciting Shane Koyczan's poem "Instructions for a Bad Day".  Enjoy!

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Michaela is 34 years old and has an intellectual disability.  While this might be the brief description, Michaela offers outstanding ideas on how to be resilient. Her ideas are filled with action and it's worth a listen.
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Using a CBT approach, we learn how you can have control over your emotions.  I will talk about the common mistakes people make in thinking that can get in the way of feeling happy or satisfied in life.
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Dealing with chronic pain can take all the energy you have.  Christine talks about her struggle and identifies the specific skills that have helped her to get through with a positive attitude.
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Luke is a young man with high functioning Autism.  He reflects on his time in elementary when he was teased and tormented.  Now coming to the end of his high school years, things have really turned around for Luke.  He learned specific skills to deal with his tormentors, found a group of guys that he is good friends with and loves his school experience.
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At 17, Travis was diagnosed with cancer.  Almost 17 years later to the day, Travis received his second diagnosis of cancer.  He talks about how his approach changed the second time around and how being a husband and father gave him another perspective. Travis talks about what got him through when he was a teen and what is getting him through now. 
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Resilience is the positive adaptation despite adversity. 
If you increase the number of skills to deal with stress and adversity, the better opportunity you have to positively adapt during difficult times. Learn how stress and anxiety effect your brain. Learn skills that retrain your brain to stay calm and out of fight, flight or freeze reactions so you can access the rational part of your brain.  You will learn how to stay calm, stay present, stay grounded.
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