A simple definition of resilience is: ‘The ability to resist, absorb and recover from, or successfully adapt to, adversity or change’. You have got to be able to push through the resistance and challenges in order to achieve. You can have resilience as an individual, group, organisation or a country. Resilience implies finding a way to press forward even though the situation is encouraging you to give up . Scripture is clear that it valuable…
2020 has been a challenging year. So many things have taken place all over the world that have made us sit up and ponder ‘what it all means’. We have had the opportunity to reassess what really matters to us. From both a work and home standpoint, there have been massive changes brought into virtually every working environment and significant modifications as to how we interact, suggested as necessary to help halt the spread of…
On the Power and Beauty Show we had the pleasure of interviewing Lester and Pauline Morse. Recovery is Possible – Key takeaways from the talk are given below. 1. Adverse situations and a non-conducive environment in childhood have the potential to set anyone up for a life of problems. This reality was shown in the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study. The study has demonstrated an association of ACEs with health and social problems across the…
What time is it for you? For how long will things remain unsatisfactory? For a lot of people, this question is not one they can honestly answer , so it becomes rhetorical … like ‘how long is a piece of string?’. For healing of the mind to take place there has to be an awareness that such a possibility exists. For many people stuck in the reality of a depressive illness or literally crippled by…
One of the things that causes me considerable consternation as a family doctor is the seeming chronicity of mental health maladies and the fact that many individuals never seem to get better when it comes to their psychological well being. Asking why this is the case, I realise that the heart of the problem and the answer lies in the very nature of the human mind which is constantly processing the reality of ones environment.…