75: Building Resilience is Better than Finding Solutions with Dr. Patrice Berry

Struggle Care

Resilience. You’ve heard the word, I’m sure, but do you know what it means and how it plays out in real-life situations? Building resilience through pain and difficulties is today’s topic, and Dr. Patrice Berry is here to help us understand. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia who enjoys creating educational content on social media to provide additional education and information to people she can’t see in her local office. Join us!

Show Highlights:

● How Dr. Patrice sees resilience in her work with trauma survivors

● How Dr. Patrice defines resilience

● Why resilience can be both an innate ability and a learned skill/tool

● Why resilience comes from a growth mindset of honoring pain and seeing light through pain

● What it means to balance pain and trauma

● How a supportive network helps build resilience by making someone know they are seen, heard, understood, and not alone

● Dr. Patrice’s take on the oft-used statement: “Children are resilient.”

● Why children need to experience difficulties, disappointments, mistakes, and pain (not intentionally-caused pain)

● The role of resilience in being the difference between surviving and thriving

● How to find joy—even in the midst of surviving

● How Dr. Patrice teaches the resilience-building skill of “doing the opposite”

● How to give yourself accommodations

● The relationship between resilience and persistence

Resources and Links:

Connect with Dr. Patrice Berry: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and (book) Turning Crisis into Clarity: How to Survive or Thrive in the Midst of Uncertainty

Book mentioned by Dr. Patrice: Trauma-Proofing Your Kids by Peter Levine

Connect with KC: Website, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook

Get KC’s book, How to Keep House While Drowning

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