If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, apprehensive, irritable, demotivated, tired or exhausted recently, you’re not alone. We’ve spent more than a year grappling with uncertainty, loss and physical isolation. Coupled with deep concern around the climate crisis and shock at the recent human rights reversals in Afghanistan, it’s completely understandable why we’re not feeling ok.
But oftentimes we equate being resilient with being ‘immune’ to feelings about the tough stuff. Emotional resilience isn’t about becoming unemotional, minimising difficulty or trying to be happy by shutting off from your emotions. It’s about acknowledging and validating
