Resilience. Can it be as "EASY AS PIE"?

The Monday night before Thanksgiving everyone had pie on the brain, but the C.A.R.E Coalition crew had a different pie in mind at the monthly Community Connection's Event.

For November the Coalition wanted to host a small workshop focusing on resilience in youth and families, while everyone made a pie together to take and bake for Thanksgiving. The tables were stacked with a plethora of pie baking materials to curate the most delicious of Thanksgiving confections, ranging from apple, cherry and of coarse the classic pumpkin. But there was a different pie discussed that many do not refer to when discussing their favorite Thanksgiving desserts... "GRIT PIE".

Those who attended were educated on the "Grit Pie Exercise" or a basic process to break down difficult situations and work through them.

Having "Grit" can be defined as the ability to push ourselves over, through, around, and sometimes under obstacles, which is the basis of resilience. But how do people do this? Are we born with it, learn it, or adopt it? Through the "Grit Pie Exercise" as explained by Amanda Paiz, C.A.R.E. Coalition board member and owner of Marketing Elevated, no matter the problem, you break each problem or "pie" down into slices and evaluate or "digest" each slice.

"Life will always place obstacles in our path that we cannot control, what we can control is how we react," said Paiz. "No matter the obstacle, we focus on what we can control and take life one step, and one slice at a time."

We hope our families in Eastern Utah will help adopt the "Grit Pie Exercise" in their homes and in all aspects of daily life and build their "RESILIENCE" together.

We hope all our families and friends had a beautiful Thanksgiving holiday.