11/04/2025
💪Young people, I feel like the word "resilience" gets thrown around so much and everyone kind of knows or think it means you "bounce back" - but thats about it!
🍕So like my young adults (aka kids) have to break down their nerdy finance talk into "pizza maths" as they call it for me, i'm talking step by step, halves, quarters etc.
🕊I thought, the same thing applies with resilience, everyone just expects to know all the bits, skills, pieces and knowledge but its's not that simple.
so... 3️⃣ things to focus on:
🧘self awareness - you need to understand your emotions 😔😳🙃 and how they affect you. Take time to reflect, notice and name your feelings, journaling 📔can be great if stuck. Be curious about emotions - name them, track them, think about how you react, avoid things, crave stuff, why is that - what feeling is that about? Start here. This is building your emotional vocab and will help you understand, identify & express feelings more clearly. 🗣
😍empathy - this is about understanding and sharing the feelings of others and practicing compassion 🫶with others and with yourself! #1 piece of advice with this is "active listening" - just try to listen to others perspectives and point of views, not sit there drafting your response (we all love to do that!).
Take note of body language, facial expressions, it could be what the person is not saying 🤐 or doing as well that can give you some insight into what is going on, so just sit back and try to look at things through their 👀 and have compassion for what they may be feeling.
😤self regulation - wouldn't it be great if we managed all situations with ease? We all react, feel, get stressed, get excited, we feel all the feels.
However, sometimes reactions don't quite match the situation 🤷
Once you are better with self awareness & empathy, this comes down to trying to live a balanced life - good sleep, food, mindfulness & meditation(breathing, being present, slowing down), support from trusted friends & adults, positive self talk. Getting back to basics with these things can help. good luck ❤️