Resilience Thought Leader Amy Dee  Resilience stops Catastrophic Thinking You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. You know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where you go. Dr Seuss Would you like to build your resilience? To be sure, resilience builds when you become  become more aware of your thoughts, and become more flexible in your thinking. In the following paragraphs, you’ll learn how to identify and immediately counteract the negative thinking trap called: Catastrophic Th ..read more

Funny Motivational Speaker Amy Dee shows you how to Increase Your Resilience by reducing Multitasking; For the most part, Multitasking just doesn’t work, but a lot of us still believe it makes us more efficient. I doesn’t work because we can’t do two or three things at the same time. Instead, our brains switch from task to another losing focus over and over again. This is a problem because we have limited supply of attention each day.   So every time we switch tasks We lose a little bit of our power to focus that day Multitasking terrible for business. Studies have shown it decr ..read more

Increase Your Resilience ! A Video for Caregivers Then everyone gets to be the hero In their own story and the captain of their own ship. Funny Motivational Speaker Amy Dee’s helpful Video explaining how you can increase your resilience   You must take responsibility for your own life Not anyone else’s. So next time, instead of jumping in pause for a minute and remind yourself that this is their journey, not your journey.  Think about all the great life lessons you learned by going through obstacles.  I believe challenges teach me the most. So what abou ..read more

Hi, I am funny Motivational Speaker Amy Dee I use stories and metaphors to teach my audiences how to use your Thoughts to thrive thru challenging times.   Today my topics is Self Care for Caretakers…In other words, how to take care of yourself while you take care for others. Enjoy the video !!   So today I am going to give you a Really empowering phrase… This phrase helps me shift my perspective and Move more gracefully through big and small challenges. Recognize what you can change and make the best out of what you cannot change. You know that moment w ..read more

4 Tips to Increase Your Workplace Humor “Develop a playful attitude toward problems; toss them around; handle them with a light touch.” Wilfred Peterson   Do You Feeling Stressed and Overwhelmed? Emails pour in, a co-worker goes home sick, increasing your work load, the phone won’t stop ringing, and your elderly mom just called with her grocery list.  Everyone wants a piece of you at the same time. You feel like growing out your mustache, slapping on some sunglasses, and going missing…just get away from it all. When stressed like this, your life feels off balance. Thoughts pour int ..read more

Do You Practice Self-Compassion? “I can’t believe I’ve gained weight!”  “I’ve gotten nothing done!”  “How did I messed up so badly?.” Are you tough on yourself when you mess up or miss a goal? Join the club. To be honest,I tend to be pretty hard on myself.  As a matter of fact, research shows that I am not alone. The problem is, beating ourselves up isn’t helpful. In fact, studies show that the lack of self-compassion is the root cause of most of our mental suffering.  For example, when all my speaking engagements were postponed in March 2020, I had BIG plans to get lots do ..read more

Resilience; You can’t Change everything so Focus on what You Control Throughout the years, I’ve realized that one of my most significant powers comes from focusing on what I can control and making the best of what I can’t control. Examples: Years ago, a doctor made a mistake while attempting to fix my feet. A second surgeon confirmed this and suggested I live with it rather than attempt further surgeries. My feet hurt every day and change yearly. I can’t change my feet but can mitigate my pain through orthotics and carefully chosen flat shoes. My father died of Lewy body dementia. I could c ..read more

Amy’s Speech Video to Help You Manage Your Anxiety and Stress and Increase Your Resilience; Looking for a great Tool to help you deal with Anxiety ? Identify: Label the emotion you are experiencing Are you experiencing anger or anxiety? Acknowledging and naming your emotion will help lesson the intensity of the emotion. Assess: Determine the intensity level of the challenge in order to lower its intensity Level 4: Trauma • outside your control, unmanageable (i.e., death natural disasters) Level 3: Daily Living Stressors • contained, manageable (i.e., big deadline, lost passport) Level 2: Dail ..read more

Amy’s Guest Appearance on The International Podcast, Healing Spaces, Discussing How to strengthen your Resilience with Gratitude Speaker Day 5 – Amy Dee Gratitude Let’s start with the most straightforward bit: gratitude. Gratitude practices can not only help you overcome stress at work. These can also help you better manage any hardships or challenges that come your way. Building emotional resilience is about control and perspective. A Gratitude practice allows you to stop and reflect on the good instead of overlooking it and passing it off as unimportant. Of equal importa ..read more

Resilience Thought Leader Amy Dee joins a panel to discuss the power of Gratitude, Kindness and Compassion to strengthen your Resilience : Use this link to learn more about Resilience A Resilience Resource Guide Looking for was strengthen your Resilience during the Covid 19 Pandemic ? Building Resilience during the Covid 19 Pandemic Gratitude Gratitude positively impacts resilience as well as overall mental health. Many neuroscience research studies have shown that gratitude practices can re-wire our brains to become more positive and resilient. At times, all of us st ..read more