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Self-Care for Foster Parents

By Creating a Family Staff

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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Everyone Fails. Here’s How to Pick Yourself Back Up.

Learning to fail is a skill like any other—which means it takes practice. Learn how to thrive in spite of even your most epic mistakes.

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In Katrina’s Aftermath, Psychologists Find Trauma as Well as Resilience

“Natural disasters and other traumatic events could be engines of growth.”

Carolyn Gregoire

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Parenting as a Spiritual Quest

Sage’s birth brought unseen blessings and I’d surreptitiously become a devotee of his teachings. I don’t believe I was his parent so much as he was my teacher. He taught me that love and a mission to serve will move obstacles from any path.

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Resilience Guide for Parents and Teachers

Children’s problems include adapting to a new classroom, bullying by classmates, or abuse at home, but resilience is the ability to thrive despite these challenges.

Mary K. Alvord, Robin Gurwitch, Jana Martin, Ronald S. Palomares

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How to Raise a Resilient Kid But Not a Stubborn Loner

Resiliency is about standing back and letting them fail, yes. But there’s far more to it than that.

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Build Your Resilience in the Face of a Crisis

Mindfulness experts Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter show, by way of the Buddhist parable of the second arrow, how the mind’s response to crisis is a choice we can control.

Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Moses Mohan

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The Benefits of Optimism Are Real

Having a positive outlook is the most important predictor of resilience.

Emily Esfahani Smith

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How People Learn to Become Resilient

What was it that set the resilient children apart? Because the individuals in her sample had been followed and tested consistently for three decades, Werner had a trove of data at her disposal. She found that several elements predicted resilience.

Maria Konnikova

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I Survived the Holocaust. Here’s How to Hold Onto Hope Through Anything

In the essay and excerpt, Eger discusses surviving a pandemic and Auschwitz, and offers powerful lessons in resilience, grief, and finding hope amid darkness.

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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common

In Rising Strong (public library), Brown builds upon her earlier work on vulnerability to examine the character qualities, emotional patterns, and habits of mind that enable people to transcend the catastrophes of life, from personal heartbreak to professional collapse, and emerge not only unbroken...

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