emotional resilience

The Loss of a Man...

The Loss of a Man...

What happens when someone you love leaves this world? When a living piece of your reality stops being there?

The doors open, they pass through, and you don’t. Then the doors close and you can’t see them anymore. And you can’t feel them or smell them or touch them. You can’t hear their voice or experience their laughter. You cannot stroke the back of their neck or nestle your palm against theirs. You cannot feel the warmth of their body touching your own. You no longer experience them twitching softly as they sink into sleep.

When someone you love leaves this reality, you are struck squarely with the understanding of the interconnected nature of your identity as a human being because there is a raw, gaping hole in who you understood yourself to be, in what you experienced your reality to be.

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The Myth of Failure

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The Myth of Failure

In my journey of training and working as a professional dancer, the most harried learning curve I had to make it through was that of my fear of failing. It nearly broke me, and many times over.

What I realize today, many years later, is that while I did - thankfully - make it through that particular form of the challenge, everyday, every year, new and different shapes of this same challenge are showing up

I’m also realizing that, as I am able to see more clearly where and how the fear of failing is still present in my life, the very concept of ‘failure’ is starting to fall away. I’m not sure a more relieving experience exists than this, of gradually understanding that one’s worst fear - or at least one of them - is not even a real possibility but simply a misunderstood distortion of the mind.

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Why your Greatest Ally Against Quarantine Stress is a Mindful, Expressive Movement Practice

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Why your Greatest Ally Against Quarantine Stress is a Mindful, Expressive Movement Practice

Maybe you are someone whose stress levels have not actually gone up in the last weeks. If that’s you, that’s wonderful! For, me, though I don’t overly have reasons for my anxiety and nervousness to increase, I have still been feeling this at times. At times I wonder whether it is even my anxiety that I am experiencing or whether it is more my picking up on a sense of collective angst; an increase in the overall level of tension in society at the difficulty of less contact with others and the uncertainty of the future that every single one of us is facing. Either way, it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that I do my utmost to keep my own system regulated, calm and vibrant. Here are two reasons why a movement practice is a powerful tool to do exactly this.

Emotional Resilience: The Most Essential Skill of the Decade

Emotional Resilience: The Most Essential Skill of the Decade

Out in the world of our day-to-day lives, our lack of skill at meeting discomfort - our lack of emotional resilience - shows up as anxiety, irritation, passive aggressive conversations, inertia. It shows up as resentments against that person who didn’t do what we wanted them to, unproductive meetings and dialogues that we are half present for and a thousand other unpleasant, un-constructive situations.

What difference would it make for your team or workplace if you and they had the information, support and structure to become truly emotionally resilient? How much less energy would get wasted on conflict, upset, anger, anxiety and frustration? How much more FUN do you think your staff could have? What would you be able to achieve together?

Read on to find out more about what the core of emotional resilience is, why it is essential and how you can begin to develop it.

The Three Foundations of Emotional Resilience

The Three Foundations of Emotional Resilience

The following are the understandings - or foundations - that you need to develop in order to maximize your ability to process feeling with ease and efficacy. When you can process feeling with ease and efficacy, the natural result is greater emotional resilience. They are simple but very profound.

 

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