Another excellent video from the Black Dog Institute. We all need to be able to bounce back in the face of life’s inevitable challenges. Some people do it better than others. Personal resilience is built on learnable skills.
Make no mistake, words can hurt you. Despite the “sticks and stones” incantation that many of us hear from an early age, words can be lethal. People can and do say hurtful and destructive things. But to be effective any insult or put-down must find its mark. Even the most wounding remark is harmless until it finds its target.
As someone once said, “In order to get your goat they must first find your goat.” My advice? Move your goat.
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Relationship success is defined not by the absence of disputes, but by how well you deal with them as they arise. You can’t do that until the foundations have been properly laid.
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I used to think I was a procrastinator. It was an idea I’d picked up somewhere because I was always putting things off.
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