PSCI 143H - Week 10, Resilience in your life

How do you differentiate between distress tolerance and self-care skills?

• Distress tolerance skills are used for crisis/short term situations; self-care skills that are used to help give your body a break

• Distress tolerance skills are short-term; Self-care skills can be done at any time for any amount of time

• Distress tolerance skills help you return to wise mind; Self-care skills help with staying within the wise mind

Allostasis

The regulation of the body to protect itself from stress.

Allostatic Load

The damage of the mind and body overtime due to too much stress or weak management of stress.

Sleep Hygiene

The habits, environmental factors and practices that influence the quality of sleep.

What are REFRESHERs?

Self-care skills that allow us to function and perform optimally.

R - Relationships

E - Exercise

F - Fun, enjoyable activities

R - Relaxation & Stress management

E - Eat well

S - Sufficient sleep

H - Helping others

E - Earth/Time in nature

R - Reason, sense of purpose

What are the mental and physical benefits of exercise?

Exercise

• Boosts energy

• Better sleep

• Less stress

• Boosts mood + metabolic rates

What are the mental and physical benefits of sleep?

• Memory

• Information processing speed

• Physical health + performance

• Weight loss

• Immune system functioning