Stress, the constant mainstay of life, can be a positive experience that motivates, a negative experience that impedes, or both simultaneously, ergo, silver linings.

The habit of consistent self-care and self-love is necessary to understand and withstand the turbulence of stress.

The key to the process is noticing which encourages our nervous system on a regular basis to seek the state of safety that moves us from dorsal vagal fight-flight-freeze-fawn-collapse (dysregulation) to ventral vagal pre-frontal cortex solution-oriented rational thinking (regulation) and, as a result, empowers the post-traumatic growth that is vital for meaningful survival.