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Self-Care Sunday
The Act of Resilience is More Than Self Care: It is Perseverance
Action Steps to Finding Your Ikigai (Your Purpose) So You Can Be Resilient
Help me to be the best version of myself because your word, Lord, promises that you will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. When I am surrounded by the dryness of uncertainty, fear, change, and trauma, help me to bloom in the desert.
Pour Your peace into every fiber of my being so that I may shine with resilience.
I sat in on a webinar training from Right to Be for the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander and Indigenous (AANHPI) community. One of the words that was used quite often was resilience.
I hadn’t really thought about how I had been resilient throughout my life, but the more suggestions given throughout the webinar only confirmed to me that I have been resilient in my own way.
When you have been through a traumatic event, resiliency helps you to recover a bit easier and quicker.
The word “resilient” means “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness” or “the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.” I know that humans are not objects, but I like the image of being able to spring back into shape.
Resilience takes practice, so be patient with yourself and know that your patience will pay off over time.
Practices to Help With Your Resiliency
Build strong, positive relationships in your life: A UCLA psychologist, Shelley Taylor, termed a phrase, “tend and befriend.” To be open to being more pro-social rather than being aggressive during times of stress is helpful
Smelling essential oils: find scents that are pleasing to you. There are specific essential oil blends that help with times of stress, but it’s more important that you smell things that are pleasing to you
Talk to someone: tell your story. Storytelling is an age-old practice of helping you to heal as you tell your story. If you don’t have anyone to talk to immediately, write your story out. The key is to get it out of your soul so that…
