What Is Resilience?

Resilience, the ability to adapt, tolerate stress, and bounce from failure and adversity, is an invaluable inner strength and a crucial determinant of ultimate success. The strength of resilience can transform inevitable life struggles into opportunities for growth. Even though this strength can be honed throughout adulthood, intentionally cultivating resilience from a young age elevates children’s moods, and protects them from adversity by increasing their stress tolerance and reframing how they view obstacles.

Emotion regulation, the ability to identify feelings and manage them appropriately, is the first step in building resilience. Switching schools and having difficulty making friends can affect some children so much that it rocks their whole family’s lives. Without proper instruction, young children cannot determine whether a situation calls for a big or small emotion. curaJOY’s evidence-based training programs instruct your child on the life skills and emotional intelligence needed to succeed beyond the classroom.

Illustration of a car with alarmed passengers labeled “Parental controls,” “Screen time lock,” and “Phone bans,” speeding with no brakes next to the text “GO BEYOND EYEBALLS—not addiction, pay for outcomes.”.
Emotional Wellness
Caitlyn Wang

Beyond Eyeballs: Pay for Outcomes, Not Addiction

After several high-stakes responsible-tech applications and helping my daughters through college applications, I finally took a Monday off. Sauna. Cold plunge. Steam. Massage. Except…everywhere the blue light from screens stole the stillness. Signs on the changing room doors banned phones; guests had signed waivers agreeing to it; steam rooms could

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Emotional Wellness
Caitlyn Wang

How curaJOY started

The Toll of Continuous (and Ineffective) Therapy on a Family For over five years, behavior therapists, counselors, and social workers came into our home 3 to 5 hours at a time, five days a week. My neurotypical daughter flipped out one day and said, “Mom, can we just have one

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curaJOY surveys 160 Youths on Effective Interventions" and "Youth Cyberbullying Support Survey.
Our Stories
Precious

Youth Cyberbullying: What 160 Young People told us

From WhatsApp to TikTok, young people share how cyberbullying impacts them and the fixes they believe in. Cyberbullying is one of the most pressing challenges facing young people today. To better understand its impact and explore what kinds of support actually help, we conducted a Youth Cyberbullying Support and Intervention

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