Tag: resilience
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These Golden Seams
note: adapted from my speech “A Case Study in Bouncing Back” Like a cracked ceramic repaired with gold,the places where you are broken become the places where you are strongest and most beautiful. These golden seams shine bright,with your belief in a better future. These golden seams shine bright,showing the hard work you put into…
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Finding Meaning in Response to Suffering
If there was a way to make it go away, you wouldn’t be reading this. If I could give my life to remove the suffering that she’s experienced, you would not have time to tell me goodbye. But there’s not and I can’t. Sometimes, the most unjust and unfair suffering is entirely unavoidable. And in…
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Invulnerable – a Haiku
Invulnerable not a gift, but a disease of a broken soul
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The Power of Optimism
Optimism is one of the most powerful and underappreciated tools that you have for improving your health and wellness. Practicing optimism can make you more resilient in difficult times, improve your mental health, and help you prevent or recover from a variety of physical ailments. But there is a difference between true optimism and “just burying your…
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What is Resilience? and What Isn’t.
“Resilience” is everywhere lately. We constantly see the word in the news, pop-psychology articles, and self-help literature. But rarely is the mention accompanied by a description of resilience that gives us a clear understanding what it means, what it looks like in real life, and how we can get some. So, this article is my…