Coping Skills and Videos

Resilience is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk & adversity. One aspect of resiliency is cognitive fitness. Cognitive fitness is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk & adversity. To be healthy is to be flexible & adapt…

Emotional fitness is the ability to enhance positive emotions, self-regulate emotions, and enhance one’s relationship to emotions by tapping into acceptance and mindfulness strategies.  When emotionally aroused or triggered practice ‘opposite action’ to unhealthy solutions you normally engage in.  Instead of avoiding situations or reminders…

One strategy I’ve discussed for building resilience is developing an ‘attitude of gratitude.’  Sometimes people have big feelings and reactions to this suggestion, because it gets a bad rep because of how it’s used in toxic positivity.  Cultivating a gratitude practice is not about denying…

Resilience is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk and adversity.  Today we continue this series by exploring interpersonal fitness.  This is the capacity to foster, engage in and sustain positive relationships.  It’s about developing a network of support from others.  It’s…

We are living through unprecedented and abnormal times politically right now and that matters when it comes to your mental health. It is important to honor both our needs to disconnect and rest, with the need to stay informed and active in the fight for…

When doing work with trauma, we often talk about trauma time. Trauma time refers to how people (or parts/alters) who’ve gone through trauma can get stuck in thinking and reacting as though they are still in that period of their lives when the trauma was…