I am passionate about neuroscience. I believe that therapists need to be psycho-educators as well as empathetic listeners and solution-focused specialists. People who become well-equipped to change their unwanted, undesirable behaviours are people who understand how to use their superpowers for quality-of-life improvements instead of mismanaging them in ways that can have devastating effects on their wellbeing and life trajectory.
Really, when we think of each person's individual goals, we find one broad, universal goal, that is: we all want to be happy and live healthy, long lives. Can you say yes to that?
Once we have the basic knowledge of how the human brain and nervous system work, most people are empowered and ready to do whatever they need to do to grow their resilience muscle. It goes like this: Resilience buys time for adaptability and adaptability buys a desirable future. It's a step-by-step process, yet many are in danger of dropping out before they get a handle on the whole story.
You may have stumbled at certain times, and slipped back to old habits, but you are here now reading about strengthening your resilience muscle and you can’t even see it! – but you sure feel when it is strong – you are ready to start moving forward.