The Feelings Habit Animal Quiz comes from the Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Workbook for Kids, Volume 1. This page shares the full Feelings Habit Animal Quiz and its results, with a link to the digital version. These habits are part of a larger system that also...
What emotional and psychological gifts do you wish for children? Perseverance, happiness, kindness, authenticity, compassion, joy? What about resilience? Resilience can be defined as the ability to endure or bounce back from difficulties. Sometimes people define...
How many of us know someone - an adult, teen or child - who could benefit from the resource of self-compassion? We might think, Wow! That person really needs to be kinder to themselves and stop beating themselves up! But what is the best way to help another person to...
I am formally inviting you (yes you!) on a Path to Resilience Journaling adventure. I am sharing our first week of the Path to Resilience journaling blog with everyone. If you would like to receive journaling prompts for future weeks (it is a sixty-day challenge),...
A friend of mine recently sent me an article from the New York Times entitled, Is Resilience Overrated? As I read the article, I reflected on the many ways that people define resilience. I looked up the word resilience and found this definition: “the capacity to...
If you are like me, you are on a roller coaster of feelings during this coronavirus time at home. Sometimes, I momentarily forget about the virus while walking in nature or laughing with my kids, and then suddenly I remember once again. Hope, grief, sadness, joy and...