Introduction to Resilience

Resiliency isn't just one thing - it's a host of skills that you use to balance the depletion of your stores of energy and passion.

Chronic stress doesn't build up in a day so none of these are offered as quick-fixes. Rather they are refreshing threads to be woven in to your everyday life that increase your capacity to absorb your life's pressures.

With acknowledgement to Dr. Brian Sexton's work from Duke University, we present resilience as building on five multi-faceted pillars of action.

MINDFULNESS

• The Benefits of Awe
• Gratitude
• Meditation and Prayer
• Mindfulness
• Rediscovering Your Locus of Control
• ​Neuroplasticity and Stress
• Remaining Creative

SELF-CARE

• Self-Care as an Ethical Duty
• Personal/Professional Development
• Exercise
• Sleep Hygiene
• Why Physicians Need the Arts
• Doctors without (Personal) Borders - Boundaries

​SELF-AWARENESS

• Emotional EQ
• The Myth of Multi-tasking
• Identifying Your Own Feelings
• ​Reconnecting with Your Emotions​
• Shallow Water Emotional Blackouts
• Understanding Compassion Fatigue

RELATIONSHIPS

• Your 4 AM Buddy - Developing Confidants
• Recognizing Physician Distress and Offering Help
• ​Balint Groups
• Professional Collegial Relationships
• Adding Value to Others
• Acts of Kindness
• Saying Thank You

PURPOSE

• Getting More Involved in the Medical Community
• Beginning with the End in Mind
• Identify and Prioritize Personal Values Audit
• Recapturing a Sense of Self
• Mentoring other Physicians
• Writing for Resilience​​​