Resilient You: What is Resiliency?
Course Overview 
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Resilience Building: Enhance resilience through effective goal-setting and learning from setbacks.
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Emotional Regulation: Improve well-being by developing skills for managing stress and emotions.
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Self-Care Practices: Foster resilience by engaging in restful, relaxing, and physical activities.
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Relationships: Develop healthy interpersonal connections using empathy and communication.
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Personal Growth: View challenges and changes as opportunities for personal development and adaptability.
Course Badges
Strength isn’t avoiding struggle—it’s growing from it. These badges prove you’ve learned to bounce back, adapt, and rise through every challenge.

Ice Bear – The Bouncer
This badge shows you're learning to recover when things go wrong. Like the Ice Bear, you're developing the strength to stand tall and try again.
Earn this badge by completing module 1 of this course.

Tundra Elk – The Holder
You’ve begun discovering the people, tools, and thoughts that help you bounce back. The Tundra Elk stands with you as your shield of strength.
Earn this badge by completing module 2 of this course.

Prism Fox – The Reframer
This badge means you're learning to see hard moments in a new light. Like the Prism Fox, you reflect, shift, and reframe what others overlook.
Earn this badge by completing module 3 of this course.

Solar Quokka – The Riser
This badge honors your choice to keep going — even when it’s tough. Like the Solar Quokka, your spirit shines brightest after a fall. Resilience isn't loud — it glows.
Earn this badge by completing module 4 of this course.
Meet the Course Creator,
Dr. Kymberli Barker
Dr. Barker is the single mother of two fantastic young men, and they are her priority in life. She holds degrees in biochemistry, math, forensics, and psychology. She is a consultant and a professor at multiple colleges, teaching with the Citadel, and Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, in psychology, criminal justice, and neuroscience and providing international educator training. Her psychology specializations are police, the US Military, and first responders. Her personal focus is child advocacy. She developed the Guardian ad Litem/(GAL)/CASA program for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is tribally and state sworn as a GAL. She lives at the beach with her newly adopted puppy and they both love playing in the water. Her favorite thing is being a mom.
