Resilience-The Gift That Keeps Giving

What keeps us from giving up when faced with an overwhelming challenge?  What keeps us in the game? What gets us over the finish line when emotions, circumstances or self-doubts are screaming Give Up?  How surprised are you when you persist, survive and conquer a significant life event? 

I would suggest that it is often our resilience that prods us through the battle, muting our self-doubt, steadying our emotions, and pushing us over the finish line.  

One of those brilliant AI bots described resilience thusly- “In simple words, resilience is the ability to bounce back from tough times, adapting to stress, challenges, and trauma without breaking, much like a rubber band stretching and returning to its shape. It's about coping with difficult emotions and experiences, finding strength to move forward, and even growing stronger from adversity, rather than giving up.”  

We can’t touch or see our resilience, but we can trust in its presence, as we feel the energy kick in when we need the strength and drive to keep “stretching” through and beyond the traumas and dramas life presents to us. For some of us it is evidenced by a never quit-never-give up attitude, for others it’s a quiet persistence or perhaps a start-stop-start again approach. It’s easy to lose sight of what we are capable of until a challenging event expands our perspective of what is possible when we persist.

  Never lose sight of your resilience and your capacity for getting through difficult times, no matter how convinced you are that you will not!