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Reslience... well, I think it's just being about dealing with each and every obsticle thrown in front of me! I'm the mother of two, I work full time, and my husband owns a buisness and has a full time job. Sometimes, just getting up in the morning is a struggle, but getting up, choosing my attitude and tackling every stumbling block with a good attitude is what it's about for me.

My resilience comes in the form of waking up every morning and no matter what being able to feel Blessed and grateful for all I have in my life... especially my amazing kids and family. I cherish every day.

I graduated from the best university in Toronto three years ago and it's been impossible to find a job in this economy. However, I've been resilient in my search for a career that I will love - I've been trying to become a 911 dispatcher for 3 years and no matter how many roadblocks come up, I'm determined to work for the police organization, no matter what it takes.

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Both me and my significant other worked for the same company (not too smart, I know) and it went out of business on January 31. Actually, it was a bank and the FDIC shut it down. So, we BOTH lost our jobs. No income. No benefits. Resilience to me is just getting through...and adjusting to a new normal.

Resiliance is spending more than 30 days in a Children's Hospital with your only child...very happy to say though that he is doing well now!

My resilience comes from my radical trust in spirit to guide me through this earthly experience with a remembering I am connected to all that ever was, is, or shall be. Get's me through my days able to take in the moments as they are.

Resilience for me is coping and understanding my teen daughter's mood swings. One day she's mad at me, next day she loves me. I didn't know raising a teen would be so difficult!

My example of resiliance is that I am dealing with a health issue that has been ongoing, frustrating & extremely uncomfortable. I try to stay positive & upbeat & take each day one by one. Thanks for the great giveaway.

For me resilience is surving with a positive attitude through a very long recovery of an unexpected back surgery. I now appreciate my body and friends that help me get through a veru difficult period.

Resilience for me is undergoing cancer treatment, and working hard to help my body fight back.
What amazing comments from amazing women!

Resilience for me is accepting the constant life changes. Like so many, our life is in a constant change....an ebb and flow of pure craziness, beautifulness and uncertainty. Being resilient to these changes and accepting them when they appear is part of our daily life & making the best of them!

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So many great, uplifting stories! For me, it's dealing with 21 surgeries in 23 years, it's been tough for me but also for my 2 girls who worry. It's been very isolating at times but I am so grateful to still be with my family and even welcome my first Granddaughter on the 4th of July!

I paid my own way through private college. I had $20 spending money a month, and that went towards the credit card debt I had from buying books. I finagled, shimmied, borrowed, traded, went without and earned my degree. I proved to my siblings that it could be done and two of the three followed in my footsteps years later. PLUS. I didnt miss a thing in college. NOT A DARN THING.

I lost my sister 10 years ago and my parents 5 years ago within 3 months of each other - resilient: greeting each day and living the way they would have wanted me to.

I see resilience when I observe my young children. No matter how many things they bump into, how many times they fall down, they just pick their little bodies up - or let me help them - and are at life again. Such a lesson for me.

I've learned that while my journey may have had some rough spots and I've had some snags along the way, there are so many more people with situations far worse than what I have. Before reading through some of these comments I was ready to type a "poor little me" story when I began reading of health problems, sick children and adults. It made me think that there is Resilience at it's best. For these people to be able to face these problems and carry on it puts my situation and problems into perspective.

When my daughter was 4 months old I had to spend a week in the hospital due to complications from gall bladder surgery. I was nursing her at the time and by the time I got home my milk had pretty much dried up. But, I nursed her every hour for 2 days depsite my pain and other people's assurances that she would be fine. My milk came back and we made it. That was one time in my life when I was resilient. She's 7 now and a beautiful girl.

My example of resilience is after having a week of 60hours of work, I try to close my eyes on everything that's bodering me and I try to have a good time with my boyfriend showing him that I love him and that I appreciate him letting me do the things I love!

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Fighting back after an accident that left me unable to walk for three months and now in seventh month of rehab. It has been a struggle everyday to fight the depression. I finally feel that I am getting back to my old self.

I have lived through many challenges…beating cancer, having to say goodbye to a job I loved after 15 years because the company was seized by the government, going through a divorce, and Parkinson’s disease taking my dad. However, none of these challenges tested my strength like the challenge of losing my mom after a long battle with colon cancer. My mom’s strength taught me the meaning of resilience and faith. I experience life differently since her death. I embrace resilience because it rewards me in ways I never knew were possible. And…the alternative to not embracing resilience is to give up...and that is just not in my genes thanks to my mom.

Resilience at this point for me is working on starting over. We just moved several states away from everyone I knew though my husband knows quite a few people at his transfer-office. My son is meeting a lot of people at school but I just don't have the outlets for meeting people like they do and I'd just in the past year or so made a VERY solid group of friends at our old home. However, I whole-heartedly supported this move knowing it was the best for our family even though it was heart-wrenching for me.

I have to have resilience every day with my sensory processing issues, which affect how I think, feel and act on just about everything. But it is ok, I find ways to find happiness. God bless each of you who have posted your hardships - may both resilience and blessings be with you always.