Linda Graham

Passing on to you this “extra” resource for recovering hope and resilience: a New Day’s Lyric from our beloved National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. May you be inspired and uplifted for the healing possibilities of the new year. buff.ly/3HvKPYe

This video is an excellent preview of the tools and techniques I teach in my online Resilience 2.0 course buff.ly/3C0eB65 If interested, you can sign up now here - buff.ly/3vqWN2I

Here’s a free guided practice helpful to recover from any trauma or series of traumas. buff.ly/3vpVLDM

"Dr. Barrett is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience, so she has some serious credentials. And she says that the triune model of the brain – reptilian, mammal, human – buff.ly/3f1S2ai

In the depths of winter, I finally learned there lay within me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

Two Christmas offerings that keep the dark and the light together in the mind – the well-known “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written in 1863, the darkest hour of the Civil War in America. And a very contemporary, wise buff.ly/3EoizXO

A friend shared this poem in our Gourmet Poets Society gathering recently. It cracked us up with its lightness and levity poignantly touching the truth of the “divorce” between head and heart. May its wisdom touch you, too. Enjoy. buff.ly/3PNBZsZ

The Hope for Change is in the Right Questions - buff.ly/35kxV26

“Resiliency is something you do, more than something you have...you become highly resilient by continuously learning your best way of being yourself in your circumstance.” Al Siebert

Winter Solstice (December 21) marks the seasonal turning of the dark toward the light in the northern hemisphere. On the darkest night of the year, we light candles to affirm our faith and hope in the light of the divine and buff.ly/3TNmX8v

"Bouncing Back is creative in its groundbreaking integration of ancient contemplative wisdom, relational psychology, and modern neuroscience, and supremely useful in its compassionate focus on what will help you here and now." - Rick Hanson buff.ly/3IwYlw3

Here’s a meditation to “let go” of the coming and goings that normally occupy our full attention and drop into the open, spacious awareness that allows us to hold all of those comings and goings in a much vaster perspective, buff.ly/3A48XBc

No Bad Parts; Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model is an excellent summary from Richard Schwartz, PhD, of some of the best practices available for allowing the wiser Self to allow, be with, buff.ly/370cF26

If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther. – John Wooden

I’ve often taught the Circle of Support as a resource of encouragement for entering into challenging situations, try this free practice for yourself - buff.ly/373sDsQ

I read Resilient Grieving: Finding Strength and Embracing Life after a Loss that Changes Everything by Lucy Hone, PhD, while flying across the country to teach at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. buff.ly/3y1d2mQ

Practicing daily, taking nothing for granted. Nothing at all, not ever. buff.ly/3geXQxR

Humbling is the only word for it. buff.ly/3GhvAmI

Free Guided Practice: How You Respond to the Issue…Is the Issue buff.ly/3subvnT