
Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength

Now consider the situation you have described, and in the second box, note down any thoughts you have that create additional suffering. These could be thoughts that amplify stress, make you feel insecure, small or anxious, limit your potential and hold you back, increase anger and hostility or cause you to feel helpless or disempowered. Once you ca
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The default setting of the human mind is safety and survival above all else, so even if hypervigilance made our hunter-gatherer ancestors feel constantly on edge, anxious and stressed, that would have been an OK price to pay – better to be alive and stressed than dead.
Melli O'Brien • Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength
Why should it be this way? It all has to do with evolution. Because of the way the human mind is wired, it constantly plays out and draws us into specific, predictable conditioned thinking patterns.
Melli O'Brien • Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength
The antidote to living in FEAR is to RISE through the four steps of the Deep Resilience Method.
Melli O'Brien • Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength
I’ve got your back. You’re not alone. What can I do to support myself through this? What do I need right now, to help me through?
Melli O'Brien • Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength
These days, this inherited negativity bias means we tend to focus way more on what’s wrong than what is going right in our lives.
Melli O'Brien • Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength
Instead of judging yourself, putting yourself down, or berating yourself when you make a mistake, ignoring your pain with a ‘get over it’ or ‘toughen up’ mentality, or getting overtaken and overwhelmed by negative thoughts and emotions, stop to first acknowledge your pain by saying something to yourself mentally, like: This hurts. This is really ha
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based resilience training interwoven with the cutting-edge skills and tools for self-mastery and resilience.
Melli O'Brien • Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength
This thinking style is useful to a point in our modern lives, but left unchecked, it just results in shame spirals, sleepless nights, stress, overwhelm and anxiety. Long past the point of learning anything helpful for the future, we get stuck on endless replay and those memories become fodder to reinforce self-limiting judgements, negative beliefs
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