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Resilience for me is keeping positive in every way I can. Sometimes it may not be easy; it makes me feel stronger though.

May all of you have all of the resilience you deserve. You stories are very touching!

I am the soul survivor of my 2 siblings who died too young. I was held back in first grade graduated with honors and went to college. I have lost more jobs than my father had in his life time. Now I am working in my chosen field with my wonderful significant other.

Resilience is how I define my life. The past has had definite challenges and trials. Abuse, rape, surgeries, poverty, hunger, health problems including a chronic & fatal illness: it has been a rough ride. My family had told me how impressed they are with my resilience. Well, when it's your life, you don't have a choice but to learn how to be you in any circumstances. It's the difference between triumphing by surviving or victimizing ones self to the situation.

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Wow is all I can think of right now. After reading all the comments I am so proud of the obstacles many of us "gals" can get through. My resilience is the last four years of my life. My sister in law was diagnoced with breast cancer, my with lung cancer. Then suddenly I lost my best friend of 33 years. We have been life long friends, she had a blood clot that went to her brain, while all 4 of us best friends were at her side, she passed away three days later at 43 yrs. old. My Mother has beat the fight thus far...thank God...my sister in law lost her battle 1 1/2 years ago. There are days I dont know how I am going to make it through, I felt very cheated, her family was cheated. She left behind with a 20 yr. daughter and 17 yr. old son. I worry everyday about my brother loosing his wife. I to am a survivor. Some days can be a struggle. I have my children to care for and worry about, so you dig deep inside and you find the strength to move on, to do just what my sister in law and best friend would want of me. It has not and still is not a easy road. Somedays its not a easy journey at all. Reading all the other womens stories you know your not alone. This kind of "stuff" really helps carry you through too!! Thanks Ali for always inspiring words and kindness.

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Resilience to me right now is continuing to provide for my children through the economy. Trying to ensure that they maintain a comfortable life despite the drastic changes. I have decided to creat a scrapbook for them detailing this that they can read later in their lives

Hmmm, I would say finishing law school. Those last few weeks were really tough.

Being a SAH, homeschooling Mom who also babysits a baby 3 days a week, and has many other things on her plate, yet keeps her head held high, knows what she stands for, teaches it to her children all while dealing with a husband who is not always able to be there for her and their children.

I dont' really think of myself as having to exude resilience thus far in my life - I've been blessed with a wonderful family and miracle son. I've had some obstacles and sorrows, but not the hardest of roads to travel. But I have witness the resilience of many strong wonderful women in my family including a grandmother that has survived an unhappy marriage with 5 children to raise and breast cancer among other numberous things. An aunt that is my best friend that has battled small cell lung cancer. An aunt that has survived breast cancer at very early age. And my mother, who battled depression, diabetes, CHF and was a double amputee who left me too early - when her one and only grandson was only 15 months old. Because of them I have witnessed and know resilience and one day with draw on their strength to find my own.

I've never considered if resilience is part of who I am. Those times when others said that they'd collapse in my situation puzzled me. I've always believed that there were people in more serious situations than whatever I was facing and that failure was {is} not an option.

How do you collapse when Husband and three children are severely injured in a car accident? Who else would interview and hire lawyers? Select the best traumatic brain injury rehab hospital for the 12 yr old who just came out of a four week coma? Husband was in no shape!

How do you allow bullies to win? I'll live my values and find a way to overcome the damage. {Ok, this is an on-going effort.}

It took years to realize that most children don't attend a new school every year until 5th grade. I empathize with those whose religious faith or lack of faith places them outside the majority - being Catholic in Southern Baptist TX gave me a glimpse of the 'outsider' feeling.

Is it resilience that pumps up my normal stubbornness to defiance, that causes me to refuse to stay down? I never thought of it that way.

This story seems so far in the past, yet so fresh at times when I am reminded of how fragile life can be. We tried and tried to have children. I blamed myself for all the difficulties we had since I had waited so long to even try. I blamed my "old" in the maternal world body for betraying us with several miscarriages. Our resilience in this story was in the trying after so many disappointments. We did everything that could be done to make this one dream come true. We finally had to turn to in vitro fertilization (our last step before adoption) and boy (or should I say "girl"?) did we get lucky. Resilience paid off & it made us much better parents than we ever thought we could be.

Resilience has many meanings in my life. My first real experience with it was laying in a hospital bed for 3 weeks in partial labor with my daughter at 23 weeks, and then going into full labor at 26 weeks and sitting by her crib side for 3 months and continue to be her mother and help her to develop into a healthy almost 3 year old now. I now encounter my own resilience again with loosing almost 100 pounds since the birth of my daughter and becoming a better role model and mother for her!

My 13-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Celiac Disease last year after experience a 15+ lb weight loss in 6 months. Although this las year has been full of struggles, she has faced the challenge and is finally gaining weight.

Everyone's posts here are amazing! I'm in awe!
Resilience for me means struggling with depression every day. Like someone said before, it's difficult to get out of bed every morning and go to work, fight being tired all the time while managing a huge workload. Sometimes I really don't know how to do it all, but God gives me strength to carry on and hope to get well again one day.

My resiliance is sticking out my ten year relationaship with a younger Turkish man :) His family turned there backs on him, but together we were strong and have gotten through some incredibly hard obstacles. Life is good!

the ability to wake up each day after losing a baby that we have been praying for. after all these time, it still amazes me how we can face each day with the reality that our baby is gone, with just spending a few weeks with us (mostly in the hospital).

Currently resilience for me is simply about getting on with everyday life and keeping the good spirits up! In a tough economic climate with two small children and only one breadwinner in the family it is sometimes hard but we are somehow actually enjoying life more right now than we have in the last few years! It has been healthy to look at what is really important for us as a family and in the years to come I think I will have learnt some really important life lessons from this time!!

I read everyone's comments and I feel in awe of so much hardship balanced with strength.
There have been difficult times in my life where the desire to keep going has kept me going. Thank God for the strength that he shares with us.

I have OCD and every day is a struggle and at the same time, every day is a victory.