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Resilience is going through a miscarriage and finding the strength to keep trying to have that baby ... And being able to keep my spirit strong though it was so hard. I have an 8 and 7 year old now but that was the hardest times of my life.

Resilience is going to work as a high school teacher day after day for 18 years. (Has it really been that long?) It means facing them when the quizzes have been horrible and you wonder how it is possible, and also when they have all out-performed expectations. It means listening to the stories about their weekends, and dealing with all the things that go wrong in their lives. It means loving them--all--even the ones who act like they don't want to be loved. And it means greeting each new day with optimism and a smile. They are worth the hope.

I must say that after reading so many inspiring stories of the amazing resilience of women blogging here, I feel very fortunate. I did however go through a mid-life divorce that threatened to strip me of any self-confience and self-esteem that I had managed to obtain through 40 years of life. I can honestly say I persevered and have come out on the other end with a second chance for happiness and a wonderful peaceful life. I even pushed through to establish a friendly relationship with my ex and have strengthened the bonds with my adult children. Forgiveness is very healing.

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Since I left my fulltime teaching position 3 years ago, I've learned that a salary is not the most important thing in the world but relationships certainly are. I treasure the time with our grandchildren and I'm resilient about the ups and downs of substitute teaching. God continues to provide abundantly :) Thanks for giving away such a lovely kit!

Resilience for me is putting my feet on the floor every morning and doing all I can to be an excellent wife and mom while living with depression and what I *really* want to do is run away from it all - but I know that's not an option!

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Resilience is bouncing back from a bad experience and coming back stronger than ever. I am an eight year breast cancer survivor that has a life today I never though I would have. It was tough going through that whole experience but I feel life a better person because of it...to me, that is resilience. A set back is an opportunity to reflect on your life and go back to it with more appreciation for it.

for me resilience was when my family had a very hard time and ended up moving home from 3 states away with only what we could fit in our mini van but we made it through and are now back on our feet. so many say you don't know where they've been but its true and resilience brings you back from the darkest of places I know from experience.

Resilience - after 3 years of infertility treatments being able to conceive my 2 wonderful sons. Many years later, at almost 44 years of age, getting pregnant without intervention to have my beautiful daughter to complete our family. Going through teenage years and toddler years --- yeah, I'm resilient...!

Resilence for me is working through closing a paper arts business when the economy was at its worst and now happy to have a job with benefits and paycheck to help pay off the debt. Sometimes life doesn't workout as you expected, but God's plan is not always ours.

Resiliance in my mind means to bounce back, to endure hardship, to persevere. The truth is that I'm not very good at being resilient. I'm a strong woman who has made my way through many challenges, but I am still learning to be resilient.

The past eight years have required a lot of effort sometimes, simply to continue putting one foot in front of another to keep slogging along. Stressful job situation, being "disowned" by my dysfunctional family (a blessing in disguise, but painful all the same), a complicated, life-threatening pregnancy and the crumbling of my marriage shortly thereafter. Finding out my not-yet-ex spouse had been inappropriate with my daughter and she had kept it a secret for years, having my stressful job change from the frying pan to into the fire, and coming out the other end with a new job where I am regaining my confidence in my abilities professionally, slowly gaining ground on recovering control of the financial disaster caused by my marriage, and finding time and ways to enjoy my wonderful children and remember the good, as opposed to being bitter about the bad.

I had to look resilience up in the dictionary to make sure that I really knew what it meant. I am writing after just having had a little minor breakdown of feeling overwhelmed with new motherhood! But I think things are going just fine and perfectly normal.

My son is resilient - he's struggling at baseball right now, but keeping at it.
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Resilience for me is keeping positive in every way I can. Sometimes it may not be easy; it makes me feel stronger though.

May all of you have all of the resilience you deserve. You stories are very touching!

I am the soul survivor of my 2 siblings who died too young. I was held back in first grade graduated with honors and went to college. I have lost more jobs than my father had in his life time. Now I am working in my chosen field with my wonderful significant other.

Resilience is how I define my life. The past has had definite challenges and trials. Abuse, rape, surgeries, poverty, hunger, health problems including a chronic & fatal illness: it has been a rough ride. My family had told me how impressed they are with my resilience. Well, when it's your life, you don't have a choice but to learn how to be you in any circumstances. It's the difference between triumphing by surviving or victimizing ones self to the situation.

One word...menopause! It is so much more than you think it will be and then you can hardly wait to get over it. Thanks for the giveaway!

Wow is all I can think of right now. After reading all the comments I am so proud of the obstacles many of us "gals" can get through. My resilience is the last four years of my life. My sister in law was diagnoced with breast cancer, my with lung cancer. Then suddenly I lost my best friend of 33 years. We have been life long friends, she had a blood clot that went to her brain, while all 4 of us best friends were at her side, she passed away three days later at 43 yrs. old. My Mother has beat the fight thus far...thank God...my sister in law lost her battle 1 1/2 years ago. There are days I dont know how I am going to make it through, I felt very cheated, her family was cheated. She left behind with a 20 yr. daughter and 17 yr. old son. I worry everyday about my brother loosing his wife. I to am a survivor. Some days can be a struggle. I have my children to care for and worry about, so you dig deep inside and you find the strength to move on, to do just what my sister in law and best friend would want of me. It has not and still is not a easy road. Somedays its not a easy journey at all. Reading all the other womens stories you know your not alone. This kind of "stuff" really helps carry you through too!! Thanks Ali for always inspiring words and kindness.

Thanks again. What a wonderful website!

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Resilience to me right now is continuing to provide for my children through the economy. Trying to ensure that they maintain a comfortable life despite the drastic changes. I have decided to creat a scrapbook for them detailing this that they can read later in their lives

Hmmm, I would say finishing law school. Those last few weeks were really tough.

Being a SAH, homeschooling Mom who also babysits a baby 3 days a week, and has many other things on her plate, yet keeps her head held high, knows what she stands for, teaches it to her children all while dealing with a husband who is not always able to be there for her and their children.

I dont' really think of myself as having to exude resilience thus far in my life - I've been blessed with a wonderful family and miracle son. I've had some obstacles and sorrows, but not the hardest of roads to travel. But I have witness the resilience of many strong wonderful women in my family including a grandmother that has survived an unhappy marriage with 5 children to raise and breast cancer among other numberous things. An aunt that is my best friend that has battled small cell lung cancer. An aunt that has survived breast cancer at very early age. And my mother, who battled depression, diabetes, CHF and was a double amputee who left me too early - when her one and only grandson was only 15 months old. Because of them I have witnessed and know resilience and one day with draw on their strength to find my own.