by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 24, 2021 | Resilience
Carrying On #3 How do you know if you are exercising your capacity for resilience? To be sure, it doesn’t always feel glorious in the moment. More often, you see it as you look back. Let’s ask a few questions to help you see your own resilience. Have you...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 22, 2021 | Resilience
Carrying On #2 When you experience seasons of crisis or challenge, your sense of reflection may seem muddled. Chunk it down. Make it simple. Set aside a specific amount of time, such as a week or 10 days. If you are sensing a need to become more proactive in nurturing...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 22, 2021 | Resilience
Carrying On Sometimes the greatest proof of your capacity for resilience is that you simply carry on. In the weeks, months, and years of greatest struggle, you rarely feel resilient. It is only upon reflection after the fact that you can take a moment to acknowledge...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 6, 2021 | Resilience
Re-writing #3 Sometimes the most refreshing thing you can do is to re-write your own expectations and responses. Over time and experience, you have seen the worst. You’ve been burned, betrayed, and disappointed. Understandably, you’ve probably put up some...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 31, 2021 | Resilience
Re-writing #2 As you go out into the world, you see people. For those you know and in certain situations with those you don’t, greetings are how we acknowledge our fellow humans…in elevators, at restaurants, in offices and in lobbies of all sorts. Years ago, I...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 23, 2021 | Resilience
Re-writing #1 In preparation for an upcoming speaking opportunity, I was searching for a cartoon or animated illustration of the old adage, “Two steps forward, one step back.” Much to my surprise, 95% of what I found inverted the phrase. I checked with my...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 12, 2021 | Serendipity
Glimpses #3 My wife will tell you that one of the silver linings of living with Dermatomyositis is that she doesn’t have to feel guilty about not going camping with me. The effects of the disease on her muscles makes sleeping on the ground extra uncomfortable....
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 5, 2021 | Serendipity
Glimpses #2 “Do you have a minute? Can I tell you what happened a few nights ago?” she asked as she peered into my office. “Sure, come on in,” I offered (as we did so easily prior to Covid). Her husband had been living with Parkinson’s...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 26, 2021 | Serendipity
Glimpses #1 A reflection from our “pre-illness” trip to the gritty sands of Galveston Island, Texas in late 2001 captures the essence of this both/and notion. Three months pregnant with our daughter and not yet showing, I did what any sensitive husband would do. I...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 19, 2021 | Resilience
Resilient Life #5 Exercising your capacity for resilience does not exempt you from problems. Neither does it mean that you must be perfect. As Anna Quindlen says, “What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and...
