by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 2, 2017 | Resilience
Endings and Beginnings Carving out a small block of time, she curled up in her thinking space. Reflecting on the year behind and projecting into the year ahead, she took her time. Her breath slowed and her muscles relaxed as her heart and mind attuned with the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 23, 2016 | Resilience
Evaluate and set your trajectory Each year, I spend some significant time evaluating my past year and envisioning my intentional growth strategy for the coming year. There are many ways to do this. But, I strongly suggest that you write down your goals or...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 16, 2016 | Resilience
Embrace Ordinary Magic In her classic volume, Strengthening Family Resilience, Froma Walsh defines resilience as, “the ability to rebound from crisis and overcome life challenges.” Some of us just want to bounce back. The truth is that after a significant life crash,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 14, 2016 | Resilience
For Anyone Facing Adversity You are living with two parallel realities, two parallel truths. Part of your experience in caregiving and living with a difficult condition is frustrating, maddening, depressing, and difficult. But this is not the only reality. At the same...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 6, 2016 | Resilience
Remember Why You’re Going Hurting, frustrated, unsatisfied. Fear, anger, desire. These are some of the reasons we set out from here to get to there. With your health, your work, your relationships, or even with your spirituality, finances, or sense of adventure,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 21, 2016 | Resilience
What moves you? 1. Hurting enough to change. When the pain of your current situation becomes bad enough, you will do something different. It’s not the best reason to change, but it is one of the most effective reasons. 2. Being Bored. Interesting, huh? This is...
