What is resilience? It’s the ability to bounce back after an adverse event. Like a rubber band snaps back to its real shape after being stretched to the limit.
We have resilience. Some of us have more, some of us have less. At times we have lots of it, at other times, we have a little bit.
Sometimes we may be seriously resilience challenged and sometimes we may be blessed with lots of it.
Of course, no matter what happens in our lives, what matters is how we react to it. Easy to say. Sometimes we may feel we don’t have any control over our reaction to an event, that the event is so awful that all we can do is break down. But… but we always have control over how we react. Maybe not the initial reaction, but certainly the ensuing reaction, after we think about what has happened and how it affects us. At that point we can decide how to react and push ourselves towards resilience, towards getting over it, towards being strong and tall.
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Most of the time I feel like I have no motivation to go forward. But I keep on trucking anyways. That’s all we can do really.
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Hi Jess, yes I know how you feel and yes we have to just keep trying. 💕💕
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That IS resilience, Jess. Keep on truckin’.
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“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”
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Yes! And then bouncing back with strength and hope!
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Hi! You have such a great blog! I love the style and content of your blog! Your friend Dyane Harwood told me about your award winning blog. Congratulations on having such a successful blog! I hope I can reach there one day 🙂
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Hello Fellow Molecular Biologist! Thank you so much for your kind words! I am sure your blog will be very successful, very soon! 👍😀
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Just looked at your blog, love it, so much great information! Kudos!
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Aww thanks so much! That’s so great to here 🙂
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