Happy Season of Gratitude. I’m so grateful you’ve decided to pause within your busy lives and day to read this note — truly, thank you.

Over the past few months, I’ve been deeply immersed in resiliency-informed workplace work. We can’t teach individuals to regulate, heal, or thrive without also acknowledging the systems they exist within — the workplaces, families, institutions, and cultures that shape how safety and connection are experienced.

When we give people tools without also shifting the environments around them, we risk placing the burden of change solely on their shoulders. It becomes easy to ask, “Why aren’t they more regulated?” without noticing the family that scapegoats them, the workplace that rewards overwork, or the culture that normalizes disconnection.

True resilience work holds both truths at once: we offer individuals educational awareness and tangible skills while working to transform the systems they’re part of. This is the heart of workplace resiliency — building trauma- and resiliency-informed practices and environments that ripple outward, shifting culture one small, intentional step at a time.

No one person is responsible for the change. It takes all of us — with patience for the setbacks, grace for the failures, and celebration for every small, collective step toward something healthier. 

With gratitude,

Laurie & the Resiliency Team