Are You Emotionally Resilient?

So what is emotional resilience?  It is an ability to cope with the present and look forward to the future, in spite of any obstacles that might stand in our way. It is a state of both self mastery and self empowerment. If you are emotionally resilient, you can adapt to stressful situations, navigate adversity and trauma, resetting to a balanced emotional set. Actually, it sounds blooming wonderful, we’d all like to be able to reset to a calm balanced state, no matter what life has thrown at us!

Emotional resilience gives us the bandwidth to negotiate the future. It means we can accept ourselves fully, acknowledging our shadow self as well as our lighter self.  It means that old triggers, whether a particular person, a recurring situation, or our own insecurities, no longer cause us to react in unhelpful or unwelcome ways.  In short, emotional resilience gives us access to our true power.

During my many years as a therapist, I’ve noticed that attaining emotional resilience is a common objective for many clients, even if they come to see me for seemingly different purposes. Some might want to relax, to chill, to detox emotionally, or to overcome recent or past traumas. Alternatively, clients might want some insight or motivation to help them on their spiritual paths or through the jungle that is every day life.  What underpins all of this, however, is emotional resilience.

And of course, there are many roots to enhancing your emotional resilience. It might be to get a little me-time, it might be to become more aware and spiritually connected or it might be to reframe and clear away old baggage including emotional or energetic blockages. Or, therapy can help. There are so many on offer, but I find that hypnotherapy can help people reframe old triggers and imbed, new more helpful ways of being. Shamanic healing is also great for getting rid of that energetic baggage that comes after a single or lifetime of trauma. And well Reiki is great for healing, mind body and spirit.

Each person’s chosen route is individual.  At my therapy practice, I often integrate different healing modalities, to help clients quickly get to where they want to be.  I want people to leave with an improved emotional resilience, so that they feel  empowered, relaxed and properly equipped to cope with the world.