Vicarious Resilience
On Vicarious Resilience, you will hear real life stories about overcoming difficult times and specific skills that worked for those interviewed. You will learn to identify mistakes people make in their thinking and learn how to change your thoughts giving you more control over your emotions. You will learn techniques to help you relax, sleep better and build an attitude of gratitude. Enjoy.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Distress Avoidance vs. Mindfulness
Rob McLeod is my guest on this episode. Rob is a psychotherapist in White Rock, BC, Canada. He brings 30 years experience with him to the show. Rob teaches Dialectical Behaviour The…
Finding Work Life Balance and Connection vs Isolation
Dr Jen Hammersmark and I discuss the importance of Work Life Balance in maintaining positive mental health. We also talk about the importance of finding connection and the negative imp…
Grounding Exercise to find a Stress Free Place in Your Mind
Counsellor Tracey MacKenzie describes how she uses EMDR to help clients process trauma. What is it? How does it work? She also takes walks us through a Ground Exercise you can use to …
Inner Circle - Steps to Building a Solid Foundation
In this episode of Vicarious Resilience, we talk about Pearl Jams lead singer Eddie Vedder and his song Just Breathe. Eddie sings about how lucky he is to have multiple people in his I…
Counsellor Edmund Szutu and the importance of Play
Edmund Szutu is a Counsellor in British Columbia. He talks about how play important play is in our lives. Focusing on having fun together is a great way to build attachments and to ta…
Ann shares her Strengths, Skills and Strategies as person who is Blind
Ann has Retinitis Pigmentosa. She always had problems with her sight and has been legally blind for 31 years. She talks about 7 strengths, skills and strategies that she uses in life.…
4 Exercises to Help You Thrive
In this episode, you will learn 4 exercises that can help move you from be well, to thriving. They are easy to learn, and you can start them today!
If you are interested in finding out…
Anxiety and Stress: Two Techniques to Help You Relax
You hear about Anxiety all the time. Sometimes we don't realize that stress can be anxiety. When you are juggling as fast as you can, and life keeps tossing more balls at you to keep …
Improve the Moment
In this episode Emma Carlson, a counselor who works with children in crisis talks about dealing with difficult situations before they become a crisis. She walks us through the Dialecti…
Bob's Interview
Bob is 91 year old. I was able to interview him via telephone from his bed at Lions Gate Hospital. Bob lost his sight 6 years ago and had to learn to manage life while living independ…
Untwist Your Thinking
Everyone makes mistakes in their thinking sometimes. Assumptions can be right or wrong, but how will you know Learn 3 technique to help you 'Untwist Your Thinking' Included in this …
CBT Cognitive Distortions - Twisted Thinking
Using a CBT approach, we learn how you can have control over your emotions. I will talk about the common mistakes people make in thinking that can get in the way of feeling happy or sa…
Skills to Deal wtih Chronic Pain - Christine's Interview
Dealing with chronic pain can take all the energy you have. Christine talks about her struggle and identifies the specific skills that have helped her to get through with a positive at…
Michaela's Interview
Michaela is 34 years old and has an intellectual disability. While this might be the brief description, Michaela offers outstanding ideas on how to be resilient. Her ideas are filled w…
Interview with Travis
At 17, Travis was diagnosed with cancer. Almost 17 years later to the day, Travis received his second diagnosis of cancer. He talks about how his approach changed the second time arou…
Luke's Interview
Luke is a young man with high functioning Autism. He reflects on his time in elementary when he was teased and tormented. Now coming to the end of his high school years, things have r…
Vicarious Resilience and Staying Present
Resilience is the positive adaptation despite adversity.
If you increase the number of skills to deal with stress and adversity, the better opportunity you have to positively adapt dur…