About the Resilience Toolkit

The best place to read about the Resilience Toolkit is here on this dedicated webpage.

Want a free introduction on your own time? Check out Lumos Transforms’ free bi-monthly offering, Roadmap to Trauma Healing.

Keep reading for more information on my own relationship and work with the Resilience Toolkit.

I was certified in autumn of 2021. As a survivor of gender-based violence and high-control environments, what drew me to the Toolkit as a practice and later as a practitioner was it’s foundation in trauma-informed principles, and it’s orientation towards liberation—which necessarily acknowledges and takes into account the systems of oppression that make resilience necessary in the first place. There was no ‘pushing through’ discomfort, no “just try harder/better/longer/more,” and there were no gurus. It was building a knowledge and understanding of my own body’s language of cues, not relying on someone else to “translate” my body for me. It was about building a practice that was accessible even without the presence of a facilitator, and having ample support from a facilitator if needed.

After adopting a regular practice with the Toolkit, the most noticeable difference was a sense of feeling like my time was my own. I was able to build the capacity to both secure and regularly use my insurance for the first time in my adult life. This included therapy—during which I was formally diagnosed with PMDD, and at first bipolar disorder, which then got corrected to ADHD. It was during this time that I explored and eventually adopted self-diagnosis of autism. Being able to recontextualize my experiences within these diagnoses changed my life, how I ask for help, how I advocate for myself, how I take action on things that are important to me, and how I rest.

As someone who both deeply needs and has a difficult time with facilitating structure and routine for myself, the Toolkit has and continues to increase my capacity to check in with my in-the-moment needs, and to adjust the current plan to meet those needs—whether it be in my day-to-day work schedule, socializing, or navigating expected and unexpected sensory overload/overwhelm. I’ve developed a larger capacity to notice my needs and shift in ways to meet them—not for the sake of being more productive or enduring more bullshit but for feeling more like myself, and for honoring my aliveness in the face of systems that want me numb, hopeless, and eventually dead.

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