throwing "resilience" in the bin on top of "mindfulness" and "self-care"
all useful and legitimate concepts until they came to mean "what if mental health didn't require any resources or accommodations"

throwing "resilience" in the bin on top of "mindfulness" and "self-care"
all useful and legitimate concepts until they came to mean "what if mental health didn't require any resources or accommodations"
"how do we tell our lessers to stop whining while still coming across as compassionate and empowering?"
I had a professor for developmental psych who always said “resilience is a property of communities, not individuals”
That's interesting! In one of my courses resilience was presented as an individual trait, but one that researchers were still struggling to understand. Now I wonder if it's because the individualistic framing prevented them from seeing community connections.
One time my company held a seminar on burnout and the main tip to help burnout was "Try not to get burnt out in the first place" and I legit just cried. I don't know why my burnt out brain thought a seminar would help but it most certainly did not.
There are two kinds of burnout advice I've found:
🥰 Deep breathing! Yoga! Mindfulness! Long walks! Talk to a friend! Consider therapy! 🥰 Just do it on your own time and don't send us the bill, peon.
😐 Yeah, so you're going to need to be unemployed for like three months minimum. If you can't afford that it sucks and there's no good answer. Try to save up I guess. 😐