What's Your Language Of Resilience?

We use various forms of language (terminology) for working out and nutrition at a good level of detail. Using that detail helps educate us and enables us to better focus on the particulars of physical and nutritional health and benefit us to varied degrees. Yet, with mental health and wellness, we tend to refer to them and speak in broad generalities. Examples: “I feel stressed”, “I don’t feel well”, “My emotions are out of whack”, “Mentally I am not there”, “I need to fix my mindset”. All of those are non-specific and lack granularity expressed of our wellness states.

Having a more detailed understanding and description of our emotional and wellness states and being able to manage, even “choose”, the right emotion to fit the moment, should be our goal. But when we lack a more detailed way to process and explain those states, it’s difficult to apply SPECIFIC (versus “let’s try this” dart throws) intervention strategies to address them.

There are over 50 resiliency building strategies. Yes, 50! With that 50 comes a specific language of resiliency that enables us to discern our states and elect strategies for personal use, just like a golfer selects the right club for the right situation(s) they face on the course.

Do yourself a big favor and become a student of resilience. Reach out to me if you need help giving you some coaching and direction. I have well over 15,000 hours of resilience building research and application with ALL KINDS OF CLIENTS under my belt. Find four to six strategies that work for your unique situations and apply them routinely, even proactively.

Take greater charge of your mental health and strength. Have a reference language that helps you more readily accomplish that.