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MAY RESILIENCE WEEK TWO Focusing on Gratitude I am not a fan of people saying "Well it could be worse" or "Some people have it worse than you do". In my opinion, it is very insensitive considering each of us has our own struggles. Some struggle more than others based on different events. At the same time, it is our job to help ourselves heal and we are the only person that can help us through this process. Gratitude is part of the process to be thankful for things we are happy we have or grateful for what is still there. The purpose of gratitude isn't to compare our situation or make us feel guilty. It is to help us refocus on things that we can still be grateful for. So, for example, I went through a very hard grieving process when my cat Mr. Sully passed away. In fact, it has been over a year and I still feel the pain from his loss. At the same time to help me balance my pain to be sure I can get up and go I try to tell myself I am grateful I have my other...

MAY RESILIENCE WEEK THREE Emergency Mood Boosters This week we will focus on how we can help ourselves through our difficult times. Every day requires we have to get up, get dressed, work through our daily lives. Small things can help us through the most difficult times. Here are some mood booster ideas. • Wear clothing that makes you feel good. • Snuggle with your pet. • Call someone that will cheer you up • Google fun Memes • Watch a movie that makes you smile • Indulge in something that makes you feel special • You go-to pump up the jam song Share with us some of your ideas! Join our Online Community

MAY RESILIENCE WEEK TWO Peaks and Valleys This is an interesting project idea to outline your life terrain structure. This project could help you focus on areas that need more work with resilience in specific areas of your life. We are going to do draw some mountains, flat lands, and valleys. This will be designed in a timeline format. Draw out your life in the timeline format using mountains, flat land, and valleys to show your life struggles and perks. Mountain: Highlight of your life where you have succeeded, accomplished something great, overcame hardship. It can be a small mountain or big mountain for something you worked hard to achieve. Flat Land: These are generally between the mountains and valleys. They are times in your life where you are in the middle. Keep these parts brief and short. The Valley: Valleys will be the times in your life you struggled and felt some hardship. They can be very deep valleys or mild low valley depending on how deep the event impacted you. Ta...

MAY RESILIENCE Butterfly Effect The Transformation of Our Pain This month we are going to focus on the past, present, and future how our life challenges can be transformed. The Caterpillar Life: During the caterpillar life we are wandering through trying to prepare for the transformation becoming a butterfly. Sometimes we go through some really rough stuff before we get to the final stage. We will think of the caterpillar stage as challenging events that caused us stress or pain. The Cocoon Stage: During this stage, we are working through the process of pain, rejection, failure, and trauma. How we walk through this process is based on the actions and choices we make. This does not mean we always recover, forget, or never feel pain again from past events. The goal is to discover how we can transform the situation so we can move on to the next stage in life. The Butterfly (Final Transformation): When we work through our pain, rejection, failure, and trauma we go through a transform...

MAY LIFE JOURNEY WITH RESILIENCE Definition: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties Hardship in Life Job Loss Illness Disaster Death Trauma Financial Divorce Resilient Characteristics Sets Boundaries Keep Good Company Strong Self Awareness Acceptance of Life Understand Things Can Be Unknown Good Self Care Qualities Team Supporters Open to Options Look Outside the Box Problem Solving Life Situation May Focus We will focus on improving our resilience no matter what life throws us. Sometimes we do not always know how to bounce back. Improving your characteristics how you deal with life events and stress can help you grow strong and resilience. Join us this month on a journey to help you improve dealing with the hardship of life.

Appreciate Everyday Life is a Journey We are focusing the month of March brainstorming what makes us feel alive. When we do things that make us feel happy and alive we are building positive meaning in our lives and those around us. So far we have focused on the following: 1. What makes us feel alive? How do we apply these events in our lives? 2. Live life with a meaning. Being alive means your life is fullfilling a meaning. 3. Are you alive in your career? You spend a great deal of your life working. Your career should make you feel alive. Today we are going to focus on appreciating each day. When we wake up instead of brainstorming all the things you have to do instead, think about all the wonderful things you have now. Sometimes we start our day off with too many thoughts and focus on things we need to do, negativity, fear, anxiety, worry, and over working our thoughts. I prefer to wake up and just focus on the morning, check my Facebook, enjoy my coffee for at least...

Be Alive and Live Life is a Journey We are focusing the month of March brainstorming what makes us feel alive. Yesterday we talked about living life with a meaning. Today we will talk about living life by being alive. What do we mean by this? For example if you have seen the movie Office where the workers mono chromatically get up, go to work, repeat the same behavior weekly. This is not living or being alive this is simply following a pattern because you feel you have to. Most of us work because it is necessity but we can also choose to work a career that makes us feel alive. I enjoy teaching and it makes me feel alive. To truly live and be alive it makes sense to choose my career in teaching. Today brainstorm your career life. Are you living? Are you feeling alive? Is there a way you can start working towards a career that can help you feel alive? Join us at Mom's Tiki Hut

Living a Life with Meaning Life is a Journey When you are living your life in a way that makes you feel alive you are living it with meaning. We are focusing the month of March brainstorming what makes us feel alive. When we do things that make us feel happy and alive we are building positive meaning in our lives and those around us. Today work on finding what makes you feel alive and how it can bring meaning to who you are. Join us at Mom's Tiki Hut

Come Alive! Life is a Journey We are focusing on finding things that make us feel alive. Our goal is to find things that make us feel happy and apply these events to our future schedule. For example I enjoy teaching and it makes me feel alive! I have days I am tired or feel overwhelmed and it is not perfect. Overall, I enjoy it so much that I look forward to my classes. So it makes sense for me to apply teaching to my daily schedule and find ways to teach. Teaching allows me to grow while giving the opportunity for others to grow with my knowledge. Another thing that makes me feel alive is going to Hawaii. I love the Big Island and I cannot wait to go back. While I am on the beach or traveling through the areas of the island I feel at peace, excited, and a nagging desire to be a part of that culture. I plan and find ways to help me take my vacation in Hawaii. This gives me motivation to keep working through life challenges. What are things that make you feel alive? How c...

Life is a Journey Our Mission and Motto We have started an online adventure for those that want to improve their life by living happier. Sometimes we need reminders, goals, ideas, with guidance to help us focus on ways to improve the quality of our life. You are invited to share your thoughts and ideas or even contribute to help others improve their life happiness. Our mission is to give ideas and suggestions how you can brainstorm and work through your own journal to better your life and how you can improve your decision making. Our Motto is living life to the fullest. This does not mean it has to be perfect or that you need to live an elaborate life. It means we live our life in a way that makes us happy. Living happy is living successfully. You can have all the money in the world, fancy house, expensive car, top notch degrees but these things cannot make you happy. Your life is yours to create, choose, and master the art of enjoying living. So our motto is... Li...

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