"Resistance to change"

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the Forum’s new topic! 

We have heard your feedback, so we will be regularly posting new topics to give you the chance to reflect on your journey so far. We will be including content around topics such as gambling harms research, news articles, reflections from GamCare staff, and more.

This week’s topic is “resistance”.

For this week we are focusing on the definition of resistance as “the refusal to accept something or change”. By looking at the definition it is easy to see how resistance can be an important part of recovery from gambling harms.

Psychology Today discusses resistance as a natural process when being faced with change. Resistance happens even when we know that the change is going to be positive for us or is a necessary one. It is important to recognise when we are feeling resistant to a change and take a moment to deliberately let that tension go. For the full article, please see: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/understand-other-people/202204/how-work-through-resistance

So, we want to hear your thoughts!

Have you noticed resistance in your journey so far?

How do you manage resistance to still be able to make changes you want to make?

Are there any things that increase your resistance to change?

We would love to hear your reflections below.

All the best,

Lulu

Online Peer Support Team