Holiday Survival Kit

The Holidays can be a difficult time for many people, most especially during these difficult economic times. Below is a road map to successfully negotiate the emotional tidal wave  associated with the season without loosing control, exploding in anger, or over indulging.

THE KEYS TO RESILIENCY are tools we can use to cope with the various emotional challenges and triggers the Holidays may bring.  Resiliency is a learned behavior that anyone may learn and incorporate at any point in their life.

Warm Regrads,
North Valley Anger Management Consultants


Defining Resilience

The word "resiliencies" is used to describe clusters of stengths that are mobilized in the

struggle with hardship. The vocabulary of strengths includes seven resiliencies which are as

follows:

Insight -

asking tough questions and giving honest answers.

Independence -

life.

distancing emotionally and physically from the sources of trouble in one's

Relationships -

making fulfilling connections to other people. -

Initiative -

taking charge of problems.

Creativity -

using imagination and expressing oneself in art forms.

Humor -

finding the comic in the tragic.

Morality -

acting on the basis of an informed conscience.

Diagramming the Seven Resiliencies

The Wolins have represented the resiliencies pictorially on a diagram they call the

resiliency mandala. A symbolic circle that stands for peace and order in the self, the mandala

was identified by Carl Jung as a universal symbol.