Resilience quotes and words of wisdom on resilience to help you keep you cultivate and maintain a calm body, compassionate heart, and steady mind during difficult times. Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficult times and to face future difficulty with a greater sense of ease. Here’s to facing the hard days with greater ease and resilience.  “If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” ― Shane Koyczan “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost ..read more

Journaling Grief Journaling grief can help you to make order from the internal chaos that comes with loss. This is a therapeutic writing practice that can support you in healing from loss. Sometimes it’s easier to write about grief than to talk about it. Sometimes it’s hard to find someone who can really listen.  Journaling grief offers a way to express your feelings and thoughts in a safe place. Therapeutic journaling offers an opportunity to practice meeting whatever feelings arise with loving-kindness and self-compassion. Writing about our deepest feelings about loss and how it has aff ..read more

Acceptance of Loss Acceptance of loss does not always come easily. Human beings are averse to unpleasantness, and when we first learn of a significant loss, we may encounter shock and denial. I recall when I was 25 years old, arriving home from a Friday night out with friends. My roommate met me at the door. She was crying into a towel, as she stammered out, “Your mother called. Your father has died of a heart attack.” I literally ran from her, ran into the back yard, yelling, “No!” It took me a few minutes to really grasp what she had said and to incorporate the reality that my father had die ..read more

Grief Quotes Grief quotes to open your heart and soothe your sou To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. — Stephen Levine  Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. ― William Shakespeare Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than th ..read more

Grief Poems Grief poems to ease the suffering and loneliness of loss. The following are excerpts from grief poems. Please click the links to read the full poems. The Well of Grief by David Whyte Those who will not slip beneath     the still surface on the well of grief, … will never know the source from which we drink,     the secret water, cold and clear, … “Lost” – by David Wagoner Stand still. 
 The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost. 
 The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver  Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me y ..read more

Loving-kindness meditation is an ancient practice that has been shown to improve our relationships, reduce stress, and even boost happiness. This article will guide you in practicing loving-kindness meditation. Cultivation of loving-kindness is a significant aspect of mindfulness practice. The Pali word for loving-kindness is metta, which means acting with compassion toward all sentient beings (please remember to include yourself in this effort).  Find a Quiet Place to Practice LovingKindness Meditation Sit comfortably in a way that allows you to be alert but relaxed. If you feel comforta ..read more

Creative Inspiration doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. Creative inspiration is a state of being that we cultivate through doing things that inspire us. For me, it’s a pretty simple formula: in order to feel inspired, I need to do what inspires me on a regular basis. People sometimes mistakenly assume that what I do is effortless. Not true. I spent my early adulthood experiencing random spurts of inspiration and feeling so stuck in perfectionism that I rarely took action toward what I really wanted to do. For years, my mindfulness practice was limited to sitting meditation, and I missed out o ..read more

Mind body medicine incorporates mindfulness for restoring the mind and body to a state of wholeness. Illness can disrupt our lives, changing the way that our body functions and leaving us to wrangle with the mental and emotional impacts as well. Whether we are dealing with autoimmune illness, thyroid disease, cardiovascular disease, COVID-19 or long covid, chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein Barr virus, cancer, or another illness, addressing what ails us from a physical standpoint as well as a mental and emotional standpoint is important. It is estimated that 90% of illnesses are stress related ..read more

Do you have a fear of getting better? Is there something that you’re struggling with, physically, emotionally, or mentally, that holds you back? Does this struggle also keep you from doing something that you fear? Take a moment to imagine what your life would be like if the thing that you’re struggling with wasn’t there anymore. What would it feel like to be free? What would it feel like to be healed from the physical, emotional, or mental struggle? Often what arises when I ask someone these questions is a fear of the uncertainty. Human beings are creatures of habit, and at times we would rath ..read more

Hope and resilience may go hand in hand. When we cultivate hope, we are also cultivating resilience. Hope is the desire or expectation for a certain outcome. Holding hope nurtures a positive mindset and positive emotional states. Positive emotional states support our resilience.  Cultivating hope and resilience doesn’t mean that we deny or turn away from pain or difficult times in our lives. Practicing mindfulness teaches us that we can do both—practice being with pain, acknowledging it and meeting it with kindness, and cultivate and savor moments of hope, joy, and other positive emotions ..read more