What can we do to keep ourselves strong and resilient, to enjoy and be grateful for life when everything feels precarious?

We all have them, those well-intentioned co-workers, bosses, or others who radically cheer on our herculean efforts and outcomes while willfully ignoring the toll it exacts.

What can we do to notice when we are heads down and busy DOING? Sometimes we have to turn to others in our lives who have a better vantage point than we do.

Passion rarely leads; it is birthed from our pain.

None of us were born knowing how to do these things, and few of us were taught these basic skills at any point in our lives.

Whatever “hard” things you are challenged by today: What would make it easy?

Exhaustion settles into the bones, and left untended will weaken the matrix. If you think you’re alone, you aren’t.

What *is* of value is examining the truth of the stories I’m telling myself and asking if the lens I am choosing is one that increases or diminishes my desire and ability to respond with compassion.

We help each other when we recognize fear, fatigue and frustration as part of our shared experience and make the choice to respond with compassion.

Resilience is a resource. No resource is limitless. Do not allow others to weaponize your previously demonstrated resilience against you..

Every one of us has the terrible power – even if only by default – to amplify the pain. Or we can commit to becoming mitigators of the pain.

It is amazing what happens when we drop our fists, unclench our hands, allow ourselves to be curious about how others are making sense of the world.

Even our most adaptive competencies become maladaptive when taken to the extreme. Resilience is a critical skill, one that has been both overplayed and weaponized.