Interdisciplinary Psychology:

Positive Psychology                                                                                          Patricia Sims

Field Trip Day                                                                                                  02/28/08

Positive Psychology                                                                                          Patricia Sims

Forgiveness/Forgetting                                                                          02/28/08

Positive Psychology                                                                                          Patricia Sims

“A Beautiful Day”                                                                                             02/29/08

“The Resilience Factor”                                                                                    Patricia Sims

by Karen Reivich, Ph.D.  &  Andrew Shatte, Ph.D.                                           02/17/08

            I’ve been called a “survivor” which in my mind implies victim.  I much prefer the term “resilient” which is defined in the introduction as “the ability to persevere and adapt when things go wrong”.  Surviving is living but resiliency is living a certain way.  On page 26 the authors say that “resilience is a mind-set that enables you to seek out new experiences and to view your life as a work in progress.”  While surviving may get you through to the next day, resilience allows you to “overcome, steer through, bounce back, and reach out”.

Blessings                                                                                  2/16/08

I started being mindful of my blessings quite awhile ago.  Because I spend more time on dark things, my blessings tend to be pretty close to the bone; things like - thanks for that breath, thanks for the roof over my head, thanks that today wasn’t the day I had to move into my van.