Resources

Our Lifestyle Audit is a pre-requisite checklist that we suggest using prior to seeking out diagnoses, medications, or even therapies. It covers what we believe to be essential life domains: nutrition, sleep, movement, exercise, stress resilience, nervous system function, screen time and stimulation, and nature exposure. It offers "quick-tips" to try following the checklist; becoming a scientist of your own body is how we move our health forward!

To value a virtuous life is to behave in accordance with our identity even when it is difficult to do so. Included in the Values & Virtues Home Cheat Sheet is an outline of cardinal rules that we believe are the foundation for resilient, respectful, and capable children. We outline the differences between values, virtues, and standards, and some parental scripts to use to encourage values-aligned behavior. 

The ability to manage ourselves emotionally in high-stakes, uncomfortable, or even hostile conversations is what will give us an edge in a world moving more toward resilience. Modern day's technologies (texting, DMing, emailing, etc.) have spoiled many opportunities to exercise our tolerance muscle in hearing diverse viewpoints. The Conflict Resolution Map is a short-and-sweet visual that helps to identify any given problem from your own perspective as well as the perspective of another. It ends with a quick prompt: do you collaborate, do you compromise, or do you simply agree to disagree?

Our Mental Agility Stoplight Assessment builds off of the more basic checklist in the lifestyle audit. Using the same domains, the stoplight system includes descriptive criteria across three categories of functioning: optimal functioning (green), lifestyle interference (yellow), and indication for behavioral or lifestyle intervention (red). Each life domain has its own sheet with behavioral criteria, signs and symptoms of each stoplight color, and quick tactics to consider in the "next steps" column.

While self-awareness is one of the foundational skills to resilience, it can go easily astray if we rely on self-assessment alone. We are master manipulators when it comes to understanding our own blind spots and our own weaknesses, and objective evaluation becomes increasingly difficult when we're using only our own perspective. The MatchPoint Assignment is a self-and-informant evaluation tool in which an individual grades themselves on a scale regarding a target behavior, and they recruit an accountability partner to ALSO grade their performance. They then compare and contrast scores to look for discrepancies in performance.