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April 2024 – Newsletter

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Kim Wasley

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April 12, 2024

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What is RESILIENCE?

Resilience is the ability to adapt and bounce back from adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress. It involves facing life’s challenges and setbacks and finding ways to effectively cope with them.

The 7 Cs of Resilience

The 7 Cs Resilience model was developed by Ken Ginsburg, MD, a pediatrician specialising in adolescent medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to help children and adolescents build resilience.

The 7 Cs are:

  • Competence
  • Confidence
  • Connection
  • Character
  • Contribution
  • Coping, and
  • Control

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston S. Churchill

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Your Guide to Facing Life's Challenges, Adversities, and Crises

Resilience is important because you need it to process and overcome hardship. Those lacking resilience get easily overwhelmed and may turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms. Resilient people tap into their strengths and support systems to overcome challenges and work through problems.

9 Essential Skills That Make You Resilient

  1. Composure
  2. Patience
  3. Optimism
  4. Gratitude
  5. Acceptance
  6. Kindness
  7. Sense of Purpose
  8. Forgiveness
  9. Connection
 

Remember that building resilience is a journey, and it’s okay to seek support and guidance along the way. By incorporating these strategies into your life and practicing them regularly, you can strengthen your resilience and better navigate through life’s ups and downs.

How Can I Be Resilient?

Here are the 8 steps to become more Resilient:

  1. Accept Change – Find ways to become more comfortable with change.
  2. Become a continuous learner – Learn new skills, gain new understanding, and apply them in times of change.
  3. Take Charge – Take charge of your own career and your own development.
  4. Find sense of your purpose – Helps you to assess setbacks within the framework of a broader perspective.
  5. Pay attention to self-identity – Form your identity apart from your job.
  6. Cultivate relationships – Develop and nurture a broad network of personal and professional relationships.
  7. Reflect – Reflection fosters learning new perspectives and self-awareness.
  8. Skill shift – Reframe how you see your skills, talents and interests. 

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