Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
When winter approaches, your routines may change as the days get darker earlier and bitter cold or snowfall prevents you from getting outdoors for exercise or to engage in your favorite hobbies. To thrive during the winter months, consider the tips below for how to enjoy what the seasonal shift brings and enhance your well-being....
Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
Motivation is essential for success but can, at times, be challenging to develop and keep going. Motivation is the drive required to begin and sustain behaviors necessary to achieve a goal....
Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
Have you found yourself experiencing more unhelpful emotions than usual? Maybe you're feeling angrier and more frustrated, or you've been feeling down and helpless? Learn how your thinking patterns can affect both the way you feel and act....
Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
Attention Control is a skill that allows us to shift our focus to successfully perform a task. “Pay attention!” is a phrase we may have heard from teachers, coaches or supervisors. But how do we pay attention when we are performing? How can we ensure we pay attention to the right thing at the right time in a smooth manner?...
Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
Have you ever been in a seemingly impossible situation and catastrophized? Catastrophizing is when you waste critical energy contemplating irrational, worst-case outcomes of a situation, which prevents you from taking purposeful action. A lack of purposeful action can include risky decision-making, which is a symptom of a lack of ethical decision-making. When considering ethics, purposeful......
Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
There are obstacles that stand in our way to achieving our dreams and goals, otherwise we likely would have already accomplished them. Like not wanting to get up in the morning when you need to go for a run, thinking of pizza when you’re trying to eat healthy, or even resisting to make a phone call when you’ve been meaning to keep in touch. WOOP is a behavior modification technique based......
Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
How many times do we tell ourselves “I’m so bad at X” or “I can’t do Y” or worse yet “I’ll never be able to achieve Z”? What if instead we were to say, “I am not good at this yet.” That is, what if we were to adopt a growth mindset?...
Graphics by Christopher Binnie | Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness | 06.05.2026
Do you ever notice some things are easier to remember than others? When we learn new information, the bigger, more relevant details are going to be easier to remember. But what happens to the rest of the details which may be as, or if not, even more important?...
