Beyond Stress Management: Expanding Your Window of Tolerance to Restore Authenticity, Resilience & Heart

Beyond Stress Management: Expanding Your Window of Tolerance to Restore Authenticity, Resilience & Heart

Is Stress Changing Who You Are? It’s highly likely that the toll of chronic stress is silently reshaping you, and without understanding how to manage it, the risks to your wellbeing, family life, and leadership effectiveness are only growing.

I would like to share a model to help explain what might be happening, from a neurophysiological perspective, called the Window of Tolerance.

The Power of Heart Coherence (HRV) for Balance, Resilience and Wellbeing

The Power of Heart Coherence (HRV) for Balance, Resilience and Wellbeing

Lately, many of us find ourselves tossed about by tsunamis of stress, emotional adversity, and uncertainty about the future. Amidst the chaos, we can always find a profound yet often overlooked resource within us – the power of our hearts to help us generate a state of greater inner balance, harmony and coherence.

At its core, heart coherence is a tangible psycho-physiological state with profound implications for our mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. It’s rooted in the science of Heart Rate Variability (HRV).

Coresilience: Cultivating Inner Safety to Build Resilience Through Connection With Others

Coresilience: Cultivating Inner Safety to Build Resilience Through Connection With Others

“The people who have survived trauma teach us about what it is to be human, by teaching us what they’ve lost – and they’ve lost the ability to feel safe enough with another.” ~ Stephen Porges

It got me thinking deeply about how the need for connection and social engagement. How, at a time when we could use the support of others, the hearts of others, some of us just can’t open up to receive those benefits – instead, we close our hearts, we isolate and we shut down to protect ourselves.

This article explores the profound need and impact of feeling safe within ourselves and with others, and offering practical steps to cultivate inner safety, regulation, and resilience through heart-centered practices, so we can ultimately connect with others, and mutually reinforce resilience and wellbeing.