Introducing Your Resilience Coaching Studio

If you're in any form of pain, perhaps it's a lot of stress or maybe you're grieving or in physical pain. Do you fight it? I hope you understand that that is a completely human, normal response to the pain. One of the things that I experienced when I was going through the years with surgeries 4, 5 and 6 on my left knee, when I did a lot of fighting, I learned that it was not only important to, but I learned how to trade the fight for flow. After surgery number seven in 2019, which was a partial revision of the total knee replacement Some years before I was back to fighting.

The knee has been left in a state of trauma and I get dozens of times a day instant blasts of acute pain. And there's a time when I caught myself saying a few years ago that in every breath I'm fighting to survive and thrive. And so I went back to work and strengthened something called plan to be your best as you navigate pain. It's an approach to taking that journey with pain and transforming it into a journey of resilience. And I'd like to share with you an invitation and a couple of thoughts.

First, I'd like to invite you to your resilience coaching studio. I'm Rick Cram. I'm a resilience coach and communication specialist and next week I'm going to launch going live on Cadre. I'm new here. It's great to be here. I'm so glad I'm part of the community and what really feels more like a family. Your resilience coaching studio is going to be a place where I'll share with you details of the three steps of resilience and the eight domains of thriving. And in a way so that you can apply to your own story, your own experience, how to use them to strengthen your own unique resilience.

You'll find it's going to be a time of understanding and a time of encouragement. I believe encouragement and understanding are two of the things that people in pain need more of. One of the reasons why I'll share with you the three steps of resilience is because it addresses a common challenge people have with pain. Have you ever noticed how whatever form of pain you're experiencing, it hijacks your focus, saps your energy and frustrates your hope? Here's one way in which I view pain. It comes into the picture and whip ups this storm, this tempest of thought, emotions and perhaps what else would you add to that in a way that it's spinning so fast that we're trapped in it.

And in that storm, one of the hard things to do is to break free from it. One of the questions I'm asked perhaps more often than anything else, is how do I take my mind off of the pain and put it on something more positive? The three steps of resilience helps to do just that, to regain focus, to spark new positive energy and hope for moving forward. Here's how it works. Tune in, plan and be your best. As an example, I was driving in the car to see a client and I had a very intense blast of pain.

It always takes my breath away and it takes my thoughts seemingly out of control completely. Once I remembered to breathe again, I tuned in, thought about what do I need in this moment? And even just by virtue of doing that one step, I'm then flexing that intentionality muscle. That is a step of regaining my own focus and then what to do with that. The more we actually take time to both understand our needs, validate what's being experienced, then we're better able to move forward into the next step to plan.

And this is all about making choices, thinking about options, thinking about what's going to help in this moment. Right now, perhaps you have some go to items of your own. I call this a resilience toolkit. My resilience toolkit includes over two dozen go to items and that I can call on and take advantage of because I know that they're proven. So in this step of planning, perhaps thinking of something that has worked before or thinking of something new, I choose something and then in being your best, I act on it.

One of the things that I can always rely on is to choose an attitude of gratitude. And in this particular time, in that moment in the car, I thought, I'm thankful even for the scars, all 13 of them, because without them, I wouldn't know the man that I am. I wouldn't know the heart that I have. It occurred to me that pain happens in the moment, but so does resilience. Augmentino, the author, once wrote something like always seek out a seed of triumph in every adversity. And that's what we'll do together.

In each of the your Resilience coaching studios, you'll hear me often say, come as you are, leave stronger, because I know your best is greater than the pain.