resilience

Fostering Commitment to a New Habit

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“Motivation is what gets you started. Commitment is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn New habits are easy to start. I know. I started one just a few weeks ago. “No TV or computer games from Mondays to Wednesdays!”…

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Resilience Coping with the Winter Blues

Resilience: Coping with the Winter Blues

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“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”- Edith Sitwel Winter, especially the part of the season…

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Personal Resilience 101

Personal Resilience 101

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“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put…

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Workday Resilience When the Heat is Draining You

Workday Resilience When the Heat is Draining You

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Resilience is our ability to bounce back from life’s challenges and unforeseen difficulties, providing mental protection from emotional and mental disorders. – Michael Rutter As much as most of us love the Summer heat, it isn’t always as pleasant if…

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Changing your thinking to reduce stress

Changing Your Thinking to Reduce Stress

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“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli Stress can be exacerbated by the approach of the individual. Although there is not much we can do about stressful situations appearing…

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stress

Over Stressed: Listening to Your Emotions

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“Stress level: extreme. It’s like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.” – Fiona Wood Look, we all feel stressed from…

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6 Mindful Hobbies

6 Mindful Hobbies

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“Try new hobbies. Develop new interests. Pursue new experiences. When you expand your interests, you increase your opportunities for happiness.” – Richelle E. Goodrich Even though the end of lockdown is in sight, there is still a little time to…

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The last year has made us stronger

5 Ways In Which The Last Year Has Made Us All Stronger

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“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Carter Crocker In many ways the last year has felt like it never really happened, because other than being…

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Coping with boredom

5 Tips for Coping with Boredom

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“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.” – David Bottoms…

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Christmas - What Really Matters

Your Restricted Christmas: What Really Matters?

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“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz Just like most things in 2020, I think we can all agree that Christmas is going to be a little different this year. The festive season is a…

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