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This may sound silly, but my example of resilience is being able to be a stay home mom to my three children each day, when one of them wakes up before 6:00 a.m. and has done so every day for over 5 years! Some days I'm not sure I can take it one more day, but, of course, I find a way!

Adopting a 14 year old from Latvia that never had a family and then having him reject you when he turns 18. Now that takes resilience! We still love him and hope he will turn back to us when he matures some more.

My resilience is tied to the fact that I have moved 5 times in the last 14 years with my military husband. It means for the kids and me to find and adapt to each time; new school, new job, new friends, new medical care etc. To be always on our own and only counting on ourself...
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Like so many other military moms and wives ~ and my heart goes out to them ~ I was able to "Keep calm and carry on" during my son's deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

My best example of resilience is about losing my job when I was 8 months pregnant. I was laid off and suddenly all our carefully laid plans changed. DH and I are very happy with the way our lives have turned out in these past 8 year though, so it was a happy thing!

My example of resilience is being able to get out of bed every morning....sounds like such a simple task, but with severe depression, some days it's the hardest thing to accomplish....then to go to work and try to make others feel they are the most important thing in my life at that moment....believe it or not, that is the best part of my day

An example of resilience in my own life is becoming a mom of twins and using this life changing experience to come alongside other moms and walk with them in the process.

Life has thrown me so very many curve-balls these past 12 years. Being a mom to a beautiful son with Autism, being uprooted when others walked out on him and his brother, having to guide him through numerous transitions from school to school, trying to find the right fit for him, struggling through the difficult behavioral problems associated with his disability. It has all taken it's toll on me, but I'm trying to find my way back to being my best self. It's a long and personal journey, and along the way I am trying to make time for myself, something that I have not done in quite some time. Resilience, I'm like an elastic band, always springing back to take on the next "stretch"!

An example of resilience in my own life would be dealing with infertility issues. While things have not been easy, I have tried to maintain a positive attitude through the whole experience.

Relocating away from home and now back has been extremely difficult for myself and my family.

adjusting to new town and new home after 30 plus years in same home and town proves resilience. This move has been easier because of loving som and daughter-in-law. Everyone adjust to "old age," but doing it with a positive attitude takes resilience!!!

When I was 24, my husband was killed in an auto accident, It was a difficult, heartbreaking time. I am now blessed with another husband whom I cherish daily. I know now am resilient, despite the time it took.

for me resilence is the ability to keep changing,to keep reinventing who i am, and what I do, and redirecting my energies for my changing family around me. "The only thing that stays the same, is everything will change"......

An example of resilence in my life is rising above the poverty and chaos from my childhood and being able to provide a loving and stable home for my own husband and 5 children.

For me resilience is what got me through losing my mother and both my husband's parents within 18 months. None of them made it to retirement age and two of the deaths were sudden. The birth of my first child has certainly helped light a path back to happier times.

For me it has been losing my husband to cancer at 37 years of age and raising 2 beautiful children alone. One who is born without part of the brain and the other that is gifted with a very high IQ. It has been a struggle a times, but we are making it through.

We were never promised life would be easy or that plans would go the way we want them to...saying that and hearing that does not make it any easier to navigate. My journey of resilience began with my husband going into kidney failure five years into our marriage and having a transplant that gave him an extended life filled with many medical moments. After that first devastating blow was endured with my husband's health, when we found out infertility would be a road we traveled on it was heartbreaking in the moment of attempts and medical trials but later it opened the door to a beautiful adoption journey of becoming a mother to my precious daughter. Just when we thought we had turned the corner of crazy ups and downs -- a few months before my daughter turned three years old my husband was diagnosed with brain cancer and after a 3 year battle he died. Now I am trying to teach my daughter the resilience lesson life brings each of us while hopefully highlighting the small moments of beauty hidden inside each of those lessons. There's power in greeting each day and finding that one small beautiful thing that brings a smile to your face or a loved one's face. My daughter and I are learning each day that life goes on and we can navigate it together.

Resilience for me was I had to look for another advisor at school, because me previous one "fired" me. I felt lost but I didn't give up, and things are looking up now.

Had many a hard knocks this week--able to maintain composure at work when all i really wanted to do is cry.

Surviving cancer for eight years, losing my job, my home and access to my daughter and grand daughter who are still in Colorado while I live in Wisconsin with my sister. I am lucky, she took me in or I would be a street person. That doesn't mean its been easy. Those are events. The resilience part comes into play in learning a new art form. Working with paper. I was a fiber artist. The chemo destroyed so many of my body's resources that I can no longer do my fiber art. So I have been teaching myself how to work with paper. Making books, journals, mini books, scrap books. Still working with surface design, but in an entirely new way. Still battling my bodies failing resources. But not giving up.

For me it was taking care of a bed ridden dad all alone for a year, plus take care of my family and I would do it all over again in a heart beat. Bounceing back after he passed was hard but I pulled myself up and just kept going.

I am tough every day - with a job in education & budget cuts left & right - I never know. But my true resilience was 3 years ago. My dad died very suddenly while I was on vacation. Then 1 month later I had a biopsy on my thyroid. Six months after that I had to have my thyroid removed due to cancer. Three years later I am going strong....I am a survivor. I am resilient.

My resilience has been successfully raising 2 beautiful daughters as a single parent. It all started when my youngest was in Kindergarten and is now finishing her Sophomore year in college. The oldest was in 4th grade and has now graduated from college (debt free) and is in the corporate world working.
It has never been easy, but God had a plan for us.

I've been a single Mom to ten year old twins since they were a year old... They have grown into two wonderful, happy, respectful children and bring so much joy to my life and to the lives of everyone they know!!

My resilience is that I haven't choked my husband yet! We've been packing to move and he wants to take everything that isn't nailed down. We've lived in this house for 36 years and there is a lot of stuff that won't fit into our new house!