by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 27, 2020 | Resilience
Common Experiences During Corona Season Normal has been upended. You may have noticed yourself grappling with some of these dynamics in the past few weeks: Disorientation. Everything seems to have changed. And it changes daily. Grief. You may have a sense of loss of...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 28, 2020 | Resilience
Profiles in Resilience #3 Midge and John are two of the most resilient people I know. John has been living with Parkinson’s disease for over twenty years. He has done Deep Brain Stimulation, all kinds of meds, and he keeps going…and well at that. John has...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 21, 2020 | Resilience
Profiles in Resilience #2 Limping and waddling his way toward me, his cheek-to-cheek smile greets me long before his aching body arrives. Wayne is one of my heroes. Disease and life experience have sabotaged his health, but he continues to expose his jumbled...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 14, 2020 | Resilience
Profiles in Resilience #1 Service to others. This is the life they have known and lived. He worked for 33 years as a public official. For more than a decade, he continued to work through the inconveniences of Parkinson’s disease. Always quick with a joke or a...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 24, 2020 | Resilience
Change for Good #3 If you sense that you are overwhelmed, then this word is for you: simplify. Caregiving scenarios, corporate work mazes, financial burden…these and many other situations are rife with complexity. In the midst of so many steps and options and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 16, 2020 | Resilience
Change for Good #2 Becoming aware of three of the most common debilitating thought habits, can empower you to stop them in their tracks and realign your thinking. All-or-nothing thinking. Rooted in perfectionistic impulses, you may catch yourself thinking this way....
