Resilience
“Resilience is a process focusing upon strengths to overcome adversity.” Resilience is a word that I hear often as I work to support families and children through this pandemic. Resilience is defined as an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. We have talked about change a lot in the past few posts and one way to change our thinking about what we are experiencing during this pandemic is to focus on how we are growing. There are many webinars and presentations right now that are focusing on building resilience in students and families. I recently listened to a webinar where the speaker talked about emotional regulation. He asked the group if we saw ourselves as “emotion scientists” or “emotion judges”. An emotion scientist “accepts all emotions as information, is open, curious, and reflective, and has a growth mindset. An emotion judge “views emotions as weak, sees emotions as permanent, is critical, closed, and ignores emotions, clumps emotions as good
