The Resilience and Wellbeing Podcast: Recent Episodes
Robin Cordova
A podcast for growing your resilience and wellbeing in life. If you’re looking for practical tips in short segments that you can incorporate into your busy schedule, you’re in the right place. If you also enjoy nourishing guided meditations to help ground it and bring more calm in your week, then you’re also in the right place.
Each episode I share knowledge, practices, and guidance for resilience and personal growth, followed by a guided meditation that includes an essence of the episode topic. Here we build resilience and wellbeing skills in a 2 part program.
Welcome, I’m glad you’re here!
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Making Gratitude Easier.
In this episode, I talk about gratitude in a little different way than I did back on episode 8. Although the increased awareness and understanding of the benefits of gratitude is being talked about, we don’t as often hear about the potential challenges of it for some people, at least during some point in their lives. Today I explore with you one potential reason and how to overcome it!
In the meditation that follows, I’ll guide you through gratitude meditation that is more of a body and feeling exercise and it begins at minute 5:16.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Using Nature Visualization.
In this episode, we’ll explore the positive effects of using visualization of being in nature for the times when you can’t be there physcially. It has long been understood that spending time in nature can benefit our psychological health and wellbeing. More recently, research has also shown that nature based guided imagery can also help to calm feelings of anxiety.
In the meditation that follows, I’ll guide you through a nature visualization, and it begins at minute 4:44.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Motivation and Daily Habits
In this episode, we’ll explore the cycles of change that come before we begin to take action and then once we’re inside making the change we want, one valueable way to stay motivated.
In the meditation that follows, we’ll relax and drop into a few reflective questions that tie in to our motivation and it begins at minute 5:53.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Resourcing Using Your Sensory Intuition
In this episode, we’ll explore what our sensory intution actually is, how to recognize it and strengthen it with a simple process and what some of the benefits are when we do intentionally focus on it.
In the meditation that follows, we’ll practice introspection and tapping into our sensory intuition, and it begins at minute 7:42.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Open Mindedness For Resilience
In this episode, we’ll wrap up our summer series on character strengths in the context of building resilience and wellbeing.
Today we’ll explore the strength of open mindedness. Research has shown that one important key factor in building resilience in any situation is flexibility in thinking.
Would you agree that it definitely takes open mindedness to give our thinking processes flexibility? To consider alternatives, to think outside of the box and even be able to go with the flow when facing challenges that leave us feeling stuck or hopeless?
In the meditation that follows, we’ll practice using open mindedness to help us to go with the flow of changes and it begins at minute 5:30.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is "Curiosity To Calm Anxiety"
In this episode, we explore curiosity as the next strength in the summer series on character strengths in the context of building resilience and wellbeing. Research has shown that curiosity has consistently been related to many important aspects of well being, which I’ll share more about in today’s episode, as well as how this strength can be used as a tool for self exploration and as a way of improving our ability to move towards new experiences with greater ease and less anxiety. Today we’ll also discuss how to use curiosity both inwardly and outwardly to support ourselves in different ways.
In the meditation that follows, we’ll practice using an open, receptive and curious attitude, ending with a few curious questions for contemplation and it begins at minute 6:33.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Nurturing Perseverance To Keep Going
In this episode, we are continuing the summer series on character strengths in the context of building resilience and wellbeing. When we have a strengths focus we can bring more resilience and wellbeing into our lives. Our strengths become assets and psychological capital as a way of improving our ability to cope with stressful situations, unexpected change or adversity that springs upon us.
Today we’ll discuss how perseverance can be an important building block for resilience and how it perfectly ties in with last week’s strength of Hope.
In the meditation that follows, we’ll connect with your future self that has already persevered through challenges and it begins at minute 5:37.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Cultivating Hope For Resilience.
In this episode, we are continuing the summer series on character strengths in the context of building resilience and wellbeing. As I shared in last week’s podcast, when we have a strengths focus we can bring more joy and resilience into our lives and expand our overall wellbeing. Today we’ll discuss how Hope can be an important element in building resilience.
In the meditation that follows, we’ll connect with hope and your dreams it begins at minute 5:25.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Perspective Taking
In this episode, I’m beginning a summer series on character strengths. When we have a strengths focus we can bring more joy and resilience into our lives. I kick off the series today with the character strength of perspective.
In the meditation that follows, we’ll connect the eagle and its symbolism of swooping low to the ground and soaring to great heights for the “great view” it begins at minute 4:46.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is Returning to Balance
In this episode, I discuss that balance is fluid and is ever changing, and how returning to balance is a moment by moment series of adjustments.
In the meditation that follows, we’ll connect with a favorite nature spot as another way to support a return to center and balance and it begins at minute 4:40.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
This episode explores how sometimes we are prone to abandoning ourselves during times of heightened stress. This might take the form of self-doubt, self-criticism, or de-prioritizing our self-care, and in doing so, we can have difficulty connecting with our physical sensations, making sense of our emotions, and navigating a difficult situation with clarity and ease.
We will practice staying connected with ourselves, our bodies, and relaxing the self-judgment while enhancing self-acceptance in the meditation that follows and it begins at minute 6:57.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other resources I have, you can visit:
https://www.robincordova.com
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
During this episode, I focus on the importance of bringing enough resources to meet the challenges we face, why resourcing should be viewed as a verb, and some different kind of resources that can help you grow your resilience.
In the meditation that follows, I’ll guide you through an energetic form of resourcing and it begins at minute 5:50.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other free resources I have, you can visit me at robincordova.com to learn more.
If you consider yourself to be a highly sensitive person, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
In this episode, I discuss how to actively generate positive emotions in your life and why this is important. Additionally, I clarify that this is NOT the same as “toxic positivity”. I explain that when you make an effort to improve your wellbeing by bringing in more positive experiences, it begins to shift the way your brain functions. In addition to releasing stress, you gain creative insight and can see solutions more easily.
The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 6:35.
Thank you for listening today!
If you’d like to explore other free resources I have, you can visit me at robincordova.com to learn more.
If you consider yourself to be highly sensitive, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link:
https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
In this episode, I discuss how chronic or ongoing stress can negatively impact the balance of our nervous system and why grounding can be an effective tool to self-regulate. I think you’ll like the meditation that follows because it incorporates my favorite grounding technique, so I hope you’ll stay on for that.
The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 5:50.
If you consider yourself to be highly sensitive, then more support for your nervous system is vital. If that describes you, then I've created a free guide for you with eight expert tips and techniques that can help you to experience less of the stress and more of the rewards of being highly sensitive.
You can find this free guide at this link: https://www.robincordova.com/8tipsforhsp
Thank you for listening today!
This week’s discussion theme and guided meditation that follows is
Allowing Ourselves To Feel Emotions
I’ll share why all of our emotions are significant and the benefits that we gain when we really allow ourselves to feel the full range of them. The meditation that follows will support this by guiding you through an emotional listening process in a gentle way, so I hope you stay on for that.
The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 4:24.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work and access more free resources at https://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss The Power of Gratitude. I share why having gratitude is important for our wellbeing and a few simple practices to easily begin increasing it in your life.
The meditation that follows has another gratitude practice incorporated in it to give you a flavor of how to embody the feelings of gratitude in the body, so I hope you stay on for that as it should feel good in the body.
The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 4:30.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work and access more free resources at https://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss Mindfulness and Stress Reduction. The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 4:45.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work and access more free resources at https://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss Awareness of Thought Patterns.
The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 3:40.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work at https://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss The Mastery of Self-Care. The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 3:22
Thank you for listening today!
You can download a free resilience building toolkit and learn more about other areas of my work at https://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss finding inner peace in the midst of change.
The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 4:05.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work at https://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss the role of adaptability in resilience building. The discussion is followed by a guided meditation to support this theme and it begins at minute 3:40.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work at https://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss how replacing false beliefs can help to support resilience. The discussion is followed by a guided meditation which begins at minute 3:12.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work at http://www.robincordova.com
In today's episode I discuss how self-compassion can help to support resilience. The discussion is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation which begins at minute 3:38.
Thank you for listening today!
You can learn more about other areas of my work at http://www.robincordova.com