Emotional resiliency
/Possessing emotional resiliency is not faking it till you make it.
Or ignoring, denying, or hiding from what you feel.
Or numbing out to make it through hard times.
Or living in denial to avoid what is true, or what may hurt.
Emotional resiliency (or emotional maturity) is focusing on listening to and taking care of your heart when it matters most.
Which is today.
This hour.
Right this very second.
There will never be a better day to care for your heart than this one.
So genuinely, how are you doing?
What does your heart need?
How are you doing at taking care of yourself today?
![GROWTH IS work. It's the continuation of showing up and exploring the parts of your self that you avoid and ignore, and facing that which you most resist, yet need. [5/6]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bc5b59e4b07f64b2495669/1564500262597-Y9SRI8GPZTFIXN90XIMR/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kHem505q6McQd8XRhQc9zkRZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpxpEURhgSBEh9ILe0HKIG3CcOCklsxWwam3CdWF6Xw7jwVv5P97BEtB5XaVnmvMtTA/image-asset.jpeg)
![GROWTH IS self-expression. It’s the act of throwing your spirit across the canvas of your imagination to observe what lies in the depths of your soul. [4/6]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bc5b59e4b07f64b2495669/1564095577854-ZRIKDM7AFK61CPMYQWCD/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kPsDOU2hWv0vBq8YQzuVgCpZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpzH3fgz7GY8JFG_Uh3r7054E8ZAcoEXN-gcBg66p-yUXs7X80TxZ_vdiSb9gxdQvG4/image-asset.jpeg)
![GROWTH IS stewarding presence. It's the practice of focusing your mind on the moment you are in. It’s becoming mindful and extending compassion toward whatever comes up inside you, whenever it comes up. Even when you feel overwhelmed at the worst times, or when your tears want to flow when you least wish they would. [3/6]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bc5b59e4b07f64b2495669/1564079434360-1YY363L7M6F7D3PIU9FI/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kD8_RcR8V7OToOmMmCTUBBlZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpzhxxCuUKKekr0jQAhMLTz7jjDbv1g-dTSt9QT6gxMyvzJpoQjoxW8Byxp-8OnbYmo/image-asset.jpeg)
![GROWTH IS acceptance. It's welcoming, with open arms, yourself in all of your messiness and imperfections, you in all of your mystery, your perplexity, your overwhelming, distant, dark, and confusing feelings, you as you are, wherever you are at all times. [2/6]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bc5b59e4b07f64b2495669/1563987588172-VJJQVL3UKIG76X9Z4FIC/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kEpVg-ILAPna1wRh-xAJ9fRZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpwEv36x-EUL2-BSQ5feDhwGCbXuJBFqZ-erYzVouT8yOb9TwqchglLQOCYTRn7ZGxI/image-asset.jpeg)
![GROWTH IS a real space. It's the spiritual and mental place within you where you can look safely at who you are when you are what you most fear, when you are what you least understand, when you are what you most resent. It’s standing in the presence of unconditional self-approval. [1/6]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53bc5b59e4b07f64b2495669/1563987588693-CJDCAS54OWQ0TAKCD0OF/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kJ8w_2wiiTy7dHpDtbRzFMBZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpyETNc6IiZBKx0U-U9i6u-vXpjGj2T0uEH9__9_kKdqBwV8EfOdnAmZ7Ufss8HLNgk/image-asset.jpeg)