Coping Skills and Videos

It has been a while since I posted about grounding skills, and I thought they might be especially useful right now. Grounding skills are things that can help ground us into the reality of the here-and-now. This is a useful skill to have when triggers…

The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is the brake system of the autonomic nervous system. The PNS is the system that is responsible for the actions of “rest and digest.” It conserves energy by slowing the heart rate, lowering blood pressure, regulating sexual arousal, and relaxes…

When we get into very high stress situations our natural tendency is to fall back onto our most established coping strategies. These are typically ones developed in youth, and if you come from an abusive, neglectful, toxic or chaotic home life, then these coping strategies…

In this final post on resiliency we are looking at the aspect of spiritual fitness. For the purposes of this post, we are defining spirituality in it’s broadest sense, as connecting to something greater than yourself. This does not necessarily mean religion, although for some…

Behavioral Fitness as resilience is the capacity to plan and make full use of the resources we have discussed developing in previous. Behavioral fitness is about developing a plan or routine for your day to day life so that you have time to do the…

Part 3 on Cognitive Fitness as resilience, which is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk and adversity. To be healthy is to be flexible and adapt to demands of each situation. Learning to look for the silver lining in a situation…