Well and Whole Creative: The Blog

Welcome to our guided interactive series, How to Flourish. This week we’re talking about presence and resilience and how important they are to flourishing.
We’re going to help you get started with mindfulness! And then we get into some practices for emotional and nervous system regulation.

When you’ve achieved a lot, it’s easy to let those achievements become your whole personality. What if your feelings of fulfillment weren’t dependent on what’s outside of you? What if you could access those feelings at any time? And what if this made you more resilient than you ever thought was possible? In this article we share our own definition of resilience, the importance of finding fulfillment outside of work, sustainable joy, and how to get started.

In our opinion, resilience is often presented as a quick fix or a way to make people stronger so they can endure a toxic environment. We’ve seen this countless times in hospital settings, and it got to the point where many nurses felt almost allergic to the word.  Resilience is defined as “having the capacity […]