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Community Resiliency Model Skills for Everyday Wellness: Learning CRM in Connection

Your body carries wisdom.

The Community Resiliency Model® (CRM) offers a practical, biology-based way to understand stress and strengthen well-being. CRM helps people recognize what is happening within the nervous system and use simple wellness skills to return toward greater balance.

These skills can support individuals, families, caregivers, helping professionals, healthcare teams, and communities experiencing ongoing stress, pain, adversity, or trauma.

[Download the Free 3-Page CRM Handout]

Your Body Is Responding

Stress and trauma can move the nervous system out of balance. You may feel anxious, irritable, overwhelmed, exhausted, disconnected, numb, or unable to think clearly.

These reactions reflect common human biology. They are not evidence of weakness, failure, or poor character.

CRM helps us:

• Notice sensations and nervous-system shifts

• Recognize when we have moved outside our Resilient Zone

• Use practical skills to support regulation

• Strengthen our capacity to respond to stress

• Create more space to receive care, love, validation, joy, and support

The goal is not to feel calm all the time. The goal is to recognize what is happening, respond with skill, and increase our ability to return to the Resilient Zone more often and remain there longer.

The Six CRM Wellness Skills

CRM teaches six body-based wellness skills:

These skills can be practiced throughout the day. Consistent practice helps us become more familiar with our bodies and more able to recognize what supports balance.

Practice. Notice. Practice. Repeat.

Capacity Can Change

Our capacity is influenced by biology, life experiences, relationships, stress, access to resources, and the environments in which we live and work.

Some experiences place additional weight on the nervous system. Other experiences help restore and expand our capacity.

Support may include:

• Love and meaningful connection

• Safety and validation

• Joy, gratitude, and positive memories

• Rest and restorative experiences

• Community care

• Access to practical resources

• Consistent CRM practice

Capacity includes our ability to respond to what life requires and our ability to receive the care and support available to us.

Community Handout

Continue learning with this free three-page introduction to the Community Resiliency Model.

The handout includes:

• An overview of the Resilient Zone

• High Zone and Low Zone responses

• The six CRM wellness skills

• Factors that strengthen resilience

• A 60-second daily check-in

• Links to additional CRM resources

[Download the CRM Community Handout]

Practice with the iChill App

The free iChill app provides guided practice with CRM wellness skills. It can be used as an additional resource between classes or whenever you want help remembering and practicing the skills.

[Download iChill for Apple]

[Download iChill for Android]

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Bring a CRM Class to Your Community or Organization

A brief introduction can create awareness. A comprehensive class provides time to understand the biology of stress, experience the CRM skills, ask questions, and identify practical ways to use them in everyday life.

UR Worthy offers interactive CRM classes for:

• Community and caregiver groups

• Healthcare professionals and support staff

• Mental health clinicians

• Schools and educators

• Employee and workplace wellness programs

• Faith and community organizations

• Groups affected by chronic illness, pain, or ongoing stress

Classes can be adapted to the needs, experiences, and cultural context of your community. Virtual and in-person options may be available.

Participants will have opportunities to:

• Understand common nervous-system responses

• Identify their own signs of stress and balance

• Practice CRM wellness skills

• Explore individual and community resources

• Develop realistic ways to continue practicing

• Strengthen their capacity to respond and receive

For questions or partnership inquiries:

Tiffiny D. Turner, LMFT, C-DBT
You Are Worthy: Therapy, Training & Consultation
tiffiny@urworthytherapy.com

About the Community Resiliency Model

The Community Resiliency Model® was developed by the Trauma Resource Institute. CRM teaches biologically based wellness skills that can be shared with individuals and communities.

Visit the Trauma Resource Institute to learn more about the model and its development.

CRM is a wellness and prevention model. Educational classes, handouts, and the iChill app do not replace psychotherapy, medical care, crisis intervention, or individualized mental health treatment.

You are worthy—without earning, proving, or striving.

Be Well to Serve Well.

Faith-Based • Trauma-Informed • Culturally Humble Care for ALL Caregivers