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I found that my resilience comes from AMAZING friends and having a strong idea of who I am and what I want. It's refreshing to find that while things were falling apart around me I knew who I was the whole time and that made bouncing back so much easier.

I think that I have experience, in my young years of age :), some incredible, asstounding happenings already in my life. Being a military wife, I have learned to cope from being away from family and raising two beautiful little girls, Madison 5, and Ella 6 months. Not even in the past year, when I was pregnant with Ella, I was hospitalized at 7 months later resulting in the doctors inducing me at 33 weeks. Everything seemed almost perfect until the day my husband and I found out that we were not aloud to take home our new bundle of joy. Ella was diagnosed with Citrobacter, a rare bacterial form of mininjitus, that caused severe brain abcesses. After being only 2 months old and undergoing two major brain surgeries, we continued and antibiotic therapy and were able to finally bring her home at 4 months. This journey in our lives was by far the most memorable, scary yet joyous, all together. We have overcome the impossible. Now back in our home 2 months later, Ella's health is well and she continues a monthly deveopmental therapy program in home. We are so very greatful for this experience, for it has truly proven to not only myself, but my family the true meaning of being resilient.

Having a father that has hurt you many times and continues to cause you pain - moving past that takes resiliency.

i am dealing with something i never thought i would with one of my children...it is the hardest thing i have ever done in my life! it is so inspiring to read everyone's posts and know that we are all dealing with something hard and handling it in our own way. scrapbooking is therapeutic for me and my way of decompressing.

for me, trying to have our daughter has been a battle. 3 miscarriages, but we are not giving up!

My great aunt Bette is an inspiration. She was a foster child, rose above her challenges and joined the Navy, raised a family and is loved by many. She is nearing the end of her life this weekend, so she is heavy on my mind today.

Living abroad for 20 years(Japan and UK),having my kids and bringing them up w/out any help.The struggle w/ 2 new languages and culture .

While I like to think of myself as a strong woman, the area that I have to say that I have shown the most resillience is in my quest to become a Mom. I have fought long (almost 11 years) and hard (5 miscarriages as well as the premature birth and death of my daughter, Hannah). With every new monthly cycle, I look at it as an opportunity for success rather than a sign of defeat. While my heart breaks daily for the child that I lost, it beats with such pride and love for the moments we had together where I got to sing to her, bathe her, take photos of her, love her ... and be her MOM. It is because of this resillience I have within me that I can talk about her with happiness. It is because of this resillience I have within me that I can push forward after all these years and still look at each month as an opportunity for success.

My resilience comes in the form of my faith and being able to stay positive in the midst of difficult situations.

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My example of resilience is in being a mother and all the blessings that come with that!

Resilience... Living with insulin dependent diabetes for 41 years, and not letting this disease stop me from fulfilling my dreams. I became an RN, worked in diabetes education, then married my sweetheart and became the mom of five healthy children. Today two are married, three are still at home, and I am still homeschooling the youngest two. And I am healthy, no complications after all these years!

I do not handle change well and so moving from place to place is difficult for me. Being resilient has meant making a home wherever we live, and getting through those first few years of adjustment to a new community.

A very difficult divorce-becoming a single mother of two, having to find a job after being a SAHM for 20 yrs and a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis have all been part of my resilience journey. Scrapbooking has become my way of dealing with these difficult moments.

My resilience right now is facing cancer the second time in 10 years. I'm in the process of working through just what this means for me. I am strong!

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Resilience ... I first thought of our over 2 year struggle to conceive our first child, keeping at that while it was neither fun nor easy. Now, amazingly, the problems were corrected and we are expecting our third baby this year!

Resiliance - To keeptrying to have a career even though i am also a part time SAHM, it takes flexibility, endurance, all those things that mean resiliance..

Resilience for me...being a 4 year cancer survivor as well as having to deal with the potentially debilitating effects of Rheumatoid Arthritis for 20 years. I don't let it stop me from living life and pursuing my dreams. After 20 years of being out of school, I returned to college to become a nurse. My goal is to work at City of Hope or with St. Jude in pediatric oncology.

Having lupus makes me resilient! Thanks for a chance to win this kit! Rachel puts so much thought into her kits--they are awesome!

I think life has handed me many challenges, including an auto-immune disease, skin cancer, death of a younger sister, raising two daughters to adulthood, etc. Yet, I sit here and say that I'm happy to enjoy the blessings of a new day.

My resilience is what helped me through infertility and then two international adoptions . I also teach public school in Mississippi, and I always seem to get the most challenging of students - it is a hard situation, but I do believe this is what God put me on earth to do.

I guess I'm really lucky that my resilience has never been tested in a hugely major way. It shows in all the small ways instead, I hope - I may get down, or tired, or upset at times, but I always bounce back to my positive attitude pretty quickly. I hope that when I'm faced with much bigger trials I'll still be able to do that too.

losing a job very unexpectedly, and discovering and pursuing a new plan, even through numerous setbacks, as I study and hope to become a nurse.

Resilience....living in a household of 4 boys...3 of which are teenagers :)

I think my career (or lack thereof) is a demonstration of resilience. Ive "started over" about three times now and i just keep trying to get back to the top!

i ADORE these kits and would be THRILLED to win one!

For reasons too personal to go into here, let's just say my middle name is resilience.