Dr. Stephen Sideroff, Clinical Director of Moonview Sanctuary and assistant professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, contributed an article to Leadership Excellence (www.leaderexcel.com) this past May that is both powerful to our personal lives and to the lives of those we help to transition into a lifestyle of recovery.
Stephen Sideroff, Ph.D.
Heart of Resilience looks at a nine-component model of resilience, "which creates a comprehensive picture of personal functioning that leads to optimal performance with manageable stress"
…… At the heart of the matter is management of stress. While stress helps to motivate and enhance focus, it also results in sleeplessness, tension, and burn-out. Although you may recognize stress, you may be powerless to manage it, whether because of its biological importance and facility in creating focus or its use in masking underlying emotional issues. People who lack self-acceptance are often the most driven to push themselves far beyond functionality.
Download the entire article here:
Download heart_of_resilience.docStephen Sideroff, Ph.D.
Clinical Director
Moonview Sanctuary
www.MoonviewSanctuary.com
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Director
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics
Malibu, California
