Pocket Sized Pep Talks

Building a Resilient Spirit

Episode Summary

Our approach to resilience often focuses on performing better or learning to collaborate better. For ordinary challenges, or everyday concerns these approaches can be helpful. Rob sits down with award winning writer and author Dr. Michele DeMarco because when it comes to trauma and loss these type of approaches fall short and fly in the face of a different form of science, emotions science, which prevents people from fully healing. There ARE ways to better cope...

Episode Notes

In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll learn:

• How  we keep from listening to our instinct to fight harder, essentially moving back to what is a failing strategy. 
• A definition for the word “resilience” and what makes it different than others.  
• A fascinating conversation around our "survivor mindset, victim mindset, martyr mindset."  
• A heartfelt story about resilience that moved Michele to write about resilience.
•  You mentioned this new concept of “coherent sense of time”; can you talk more about how it helps to build resilience?
• What is meant by resilience being an embodied response.
• Three practices that people can follow to become more resilient.

To learn more about this guest: 

Web: www.micheledemarco.com

Email: outreach@micheledemarco.com

Psychology Today Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soul-console

Medium: https://michelejdemarco.medium.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelejdemarco/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmicheledemarco/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/micheledemarcoauthor