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My resilience is more recent and more raw. The first major loss of a loved one. It's been very difficult to process. She was not my birth mom but she was my mom in every single important way that counted. I didn't think it was possible to stop crying but I have and I guess the ability to keep moving forward is my resilience. Her birthday is this week... more challenges to work through. : )

After 25 years with a bank, my senior VP hsuband was laid off. 10 months of unemployment led to a job, in Atlanta. I am in Texas...staying until the house sells. 15 months later, I am STILL keeping my chin up, that this house WILL sell and we will once again be living in the same state, same town...same house! We see each once a month, and work hard at not getting depressed or bitter or whiney. I am resolved to beat this and win a happy life. :-)

I find that I can only be resilient with grace from God. if I left it up to me alone, i would probably say and do somethings that would leave me with regret. Instead I can be strong, humble, and patient because of a love deeper than any other.

Beautiful Kit....My reliance has come a few time in my life. When I was married the first time, I married a verbal abusive man with 2 kids he had custody of and verbally and physically abused them, but since there were no visibly noticeable marks, the courts could do nothing about removing them from the house. I stayed with him until his youngest was old enough to defend himself. The day that young boy turned 15 I packed my bags and never looked back. I was 26, it's made me a strong woman that has been able to go with the flow and not let anything or anyone ever abuse me or anyone I love.

there are lots of times just getting up is definitely an exercise in resilience!

This is very interesting! My example is an injury that kept me in pain 24/7 for 9 months while the doctors tried to find the cause and treatment. And I still needed to get the kids fed and off to school each day no matter how much pain I had. I went from doctor to doctor. You know, one just cannot give up. There are answers, but we have to continue the fight to find them.

In our life we have had to diagnose and help our son get thru some serious anxiety issues. It may not sound difficult to some but when he won't eat or sleep because he's got this bad feeling it takes it's toll on everyone. We spent entire nights awake and days physically holding him down when he would get upset at himself for not be able to make minor, minor decisions (like what to wear or how much toothpaste to use). But with resilience and hope, we ALL made it thru and would do it again if we had to.

In our small southern Oregon county, homelessness is at 19%. Almost three years ago, because of a multitude of reasons, I found myself living in my car and on the back porch of a friend's empty house. Each new day brought challenges I never realized. But my faith that another day might bring with it a solution, and I guess a certain level of resilience to life's obstacles--and scrapbooking (a tether that held me tight to my child, my art and my beliefs), all contributed to a resolution that only God could have brought about.

Just within the last week I have been faced with a call challenging the foundation of my being, a mother. i have been divorced for 14 years, raised 3 childern and this person has chosen to take revenge on me and my family after a threat that if my brother tried to get custody of his son she would hurt all of our family members legally. Well I have news for her. Rock my world - it will only make me a stronger! GOD is at the root of my very being and as long as he is with me I shall not fear. I am blessed in so many ways. It is sad that one would use their legal power to do this to another. Kim D

I guess the fact that we have been trying for a baby for 8 years now and keep going through all the tests all the disappointments, all the hurt and pain, my husband and i have stayed close and strong and next up is IVF.

I feel like I have had resilience in many different downs in my life, but one of the toughest thing I have been through was cancer. Breast cancer, 3 different surgery over 15 hours in surgery total, chemo, no hair, sick, pain, mouth sores, body aches, low blood counts, not being able to go around people and on and on. But I made it I have been cancer-free for 8 years now!

Losing my father and still going through the first year of those important occasions, those "first without ...", is much harder than I thought it would be and I'm still trying to build up my resilience so that I can be there for my mother and family.

Being strong for my youngest brother who is afraid to go to sleep at night for fear that he will not wake up. Having an illness that will take your life sooner than you expect is hard to imagine when it is not your life - so being their for your loved one everyday is what you do - love is the strongest relationship anyone can have. God I Thank You.

i count myself lucky when reading so many amazing resilience stories that mine is not so bad. i live with bipolar disorder and have learned resilience through dealing with depression and it's effects. i would say that for me having my depression is what makes me better...........strange but true,
Jo xxx

Any resilience in my life does not compare to the women above! Depression, loss of a loved one, health issues, job changes - they are all cause for being resilient and I have had them all at some time. I seem to be very resilient, I cannot hold on to anger. I give it up quickly and get back to happiness. Thanks for the chance to win some great therapy tools! Love your work.

We are a "nomad" family, changing countries and cultures every few years, so I think we have developed a lot of resilience to adapt to a new life knowing it will change yet again in a few years' time.

Resilience for me would be knowing that I will one day be back to full strength and back to work after being ill for some time. Also knowing that there are worse things out in the world that I could have experienced. I am thankful for that!

I had no idea just how resilient I was until I was told I had advanced breast cancer, and a 38% chance of beating it. I had surgeries, chemo, radiation, more treatment, and the whole time, I stood strong. No cancer was going to get me! it is now 6 years since I heard those words, my resilience is just as strong, and I am helping others fight the fight, supporting newly diagnosed women whenever I can! I have days that are not easy, as I suffer from the side effects of treatment, but I am still standing! And I will for as long as I can!

I was diagnosed with MS years ago and have thankfully lived a mostly "normal" life despite of the diagnosis. My neurologist was rather amazed when I had a repeat MRI that had shown that many of my lesions on my brain had DISAPPEARED since my initial diagnosis, that he predicted would end me in a wheelchair. (Granted, there WERE some new ones, but the fact that some had gone away was interesting for me to hear.) Doc claims that the body has some ability to heal itself if it wants to and that the power of positive thinking really CAN make a difference.

My comment compare to others is so small - there are some amazing comments and so very strong people. Mine is so small - i live in a away in another country anyway from family and friends, a different language and culture but I am blessed with a beautiful husband and two daughter who make everyday alittle easier.

I've lost 40 pounds in six months. Resilience for me is loosing another 40!

Thanks Ali! Resiliance is loving and being loved. Love gets stretched, tested, teased, tormented - and still, with some effort, bounces back.

For me resilience is dealing with my son's special needs. Every day is a new challenge, and every time we find something that is working, something else changes. There are bright spots but it never really gets easier.

Being Resilient- able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions
I would have to say this for me is becoming a mother again to a small child when I thought I was reaching a time in my life when I would be retiring. Enjoying the fruits of our labors. My husband and I took on the raising of our grandchild who has been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and brain damage at birth. She is susceptible to seizure disorder for the rest of her life.
We have overcome many obstacles and she is 4 years old and finally starting to sleep 8 hours straight.

great giveaway! an example of resilience.. family problems. but we're working through, every day, and remembering that all you need is LOVE.