Resilience Coaching

The symbol I choose for the graphic on my website to represent resilience coaching is the tardigrade!  I bet that surprised and confounded many people. Also known as “water bears” these amazing creatures have been able to adapt and survive from the highest mountain tops to the deep sea to tropical rainforests and even the frozen conditions of the Antarctic. Some species of this remarkably resilient creature can survive in extreme temperatures, pressures, air deprivation, radiation, dehydration and starvation!

Resilience is the only word to describe this capacity.  Of course, no one human being could, or should, expect to develop these capacities, but we can still look to this tiny creature as a symbol of resilience. We humans have and are currently looking to be able to adapt to extreme conditions using technology.  However, are we as clever and insightful in our ability to psychologically adapt to a world that is changing faster and more dramatic than ever before in our history?

Today we depend more and more on technology to make our lives easier and our children are being raised within that shell.  We are “addicted” to comfort and have this idea that if we just insulate ourselves from the changes in the environment, we will be alright and ultimately numb. But that is not how we grow in strength and resilience. 

“…from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience.”
― Eric Greitens, Resilience

This is the journey on which I will join with you.  The journey through what it is to be human, what it is to face fear and struggles and sadness and work together towards a resilient future.  There is never an end point…only a beginning!

Resilience Coaching starts where you are in the moment. We will explore emotional and social resilient skills and we will look at our humanness and grow together.