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Emotional wellbeing | Resilience
Ways to maintain resilience
We all have our own tricks for staying calm and bring balance back to our emotions. Here, carers share theirs with us
By Andrew Embling, DCC practitioner
When we talk about resilience with carers it will mean different things to different people. We’ve listed some of the words associated with resilience below. We encourage carers to think of small, free, easily accessible things they can do which will help them feel a little calmer, a little happier and help them move from the feelings of burnout, and no matter how temporary this shift may be it’s important to know what can alter your mood. Here are some ideas from carers about what helps them:
How you maintain resilience
An exercise we do with carers when focusing on resilience is to get them to list 5 things they enjoy doing for each of their senses, examples below:
Touch
popping bubble wrap
stroking cat
Sight
old photos
the sky
Hearing
running water
music
Taste
sweet tangerines
marmite
Smell
fresh bread
cut grass