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An example of resilience in my life would be my struggle with anxiety. I have been on medication for it for the past year and a half and have been much better. There are some days where it's still a challenge but I've learned to manage it better.

I got my friend through radiation and chemotherapy last year- it was physically and emotionally hard for all of us-but we made it through and his last PET scan was negative.

My resilence is living day to day since last May when I lost my beloved daughter. I have to be even more resilent as the 1st yr. anniversary of her death approaches next month.

Personally I think resilience is NOT running for the hills when your husband yet again decides to change cars/bike/whatever has taken his impulsive fancy at that particular time... NOT complaining about it and making do... missing out on the things you need or your children need... though even sometimes the most resilient fail and want to head for them thar hills as fast as they can...

Life these days are not always as they seem. Several years ago my husband was in a car accident just waiting at a red light waiting to turn...he was a guard rail for the car (driven by a young teen) trying to beat the oncoming truck into a turn, which didn't make it and was stuck and directed towards my husband. What an evening this turned out to be. Thank our Lord the car hit where it did. Couple of feet down and he would not be here today. Many appointments, surgery to repair disc in his spine, therapy, and various other surgeries we are all together living our lives the best we can and enjoying each and each and every day. This last year our daughter was bullied to the point we had to file police reports on several incidents. After getting nowhere with the school, district we decided to pull her and homeschool which has been a tremendous blessing. We have used this opportunity to further enhance and parent our relationship with her. To further educate her on how people deal with their anger and issues they may face elsewhere and take it out on the innocent. Our lives have changed, but so have we in the last several years. We pray each and every day for others as well as ourselves so that we are given the guidance to deal with everyday issues and whatever path we may be taken to make us the people we are and who we need to be!

Resilience is going through a miscarriage and finding the strength to keep trying to have that baby ... And being able to keep my spirit strong though it was so hard. I have an 8 and 7 year old now but that was the hardest times of my life.

Resilience is going to work as a high school teacher day after day for 18 years. (Has it really been that long?) It means facing them when the quizzes have been horrible and you wonder how it is possible, and also when they have all out-performed expectations. It means listening to the stories about their weekends, and dealing with all the things that go wrong in their lives. It means loving them--all--even the ones who act like they don't want to be loved. And it means greeting each new day with optimism and a smile. They are worth the hope.

I must say that after reading so many inspiring stories of the amazing resilience of women blogging here, I feel very fortunate. I did however go through a mid-life divorce that threatened to strip me of any self-confience and self-esteem that I had managed to obtain through 40 years of life. I can honestly say I persevered and have come out on the other end with a second chance for happiness and a wonderful peaceful life. I even pushed through to establish a friendly relationship with my ex and have strengthened the bonds with my adult children. Forgiveness is very healing.

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Since I left my fulltime teaching position 3 years ago, I've learned that a salary is not the most important thing in the world but relationships certainly are. I treasure the time with our grandchildren and I'm resilient about the ups and downs of substitute teaching. God continues to provide abundantly :) Thanks for giving away such a lovely kit!

Resilience for me is putting my feet on the floor every morning and doing all I can to be an excellent wife and mom while living with depression and what I *really* want to do is run away from it all - but I know that's not an option!

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Resilience is bouncing back from a bad experience and coming back stronger than ever. I am an eight year breast cancer survivor that has a life today I never though I would have. It was tough going through that whole experience but I feel life a better person because of it...to me, that is resilience. A set back is an opportunity to reflect on your life and go back to it with more appreciation for it.

for me resilience was when my family had a very hard time and ended up moving home from 3 states away with only what we could fit in our mini van but we made it through and are now back on our feet. so many say you don't know where they've been but its true and resilience brings you back from the darkest of places I know from experience.

Resilience - after 3 years of infertility treatments being able to conceive my 2 wonderful sons. Many years later, at almost 44 years of age, getting pregnant without intervention to have my beautiful daughter to complete our family. Going through teenage years and toddler years --- yeah, I'm resilient...!

Resilence for me is working through closing a paper arts business when the economy was at its worst and now happy to have a job with benefits and paycheck to help pay off the debt. Sometimes life doesn't workout as you expected, but God's plan is not always ours.

Resiliance in my mind means to bounce back, to endure hardship, to persevere. The truth is that I'm not very good at being resilient. I'm a strong woman who has made my way through many challenges, but I am still learning to be resilient.

The past eight years have required a lot of effort sometimes, simply to continue putting one foot in front of another to keep slogging along. Stressful job situation, being "disowned" by my dysfunctional family (a blessing in disguise, but painful all the same), a complicated, life-threatening pregnancy and the crumbling of my marriage shortly thereafter. Finding out my not-yet-ex spouse had been inappropriate with my daughter and she had kept it a secret for years, having my stressful job change from the frying pan to into the fire, and coming out the other end with a new job where I am regaining my confidence in my abilities professionally, slowly gaining ground on recovering control of the financial disaster caused by my marriage, and finding time and ways to enjoy my wonderful children and remember the good, as opposed to being bitter about the bad.

I had to look resilience up in the dictionary to make sure that I really knew what it meant. I am writing after just having had a little minor breakdown of feeling overwhelmed with new motherhood! But I think things are going just fine and perfectly normal.

My son is resilient - he's struggling at baseball right now, but keeping at it.
Rinda