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For me it was taking care of a bed ridden dad all alone for a year, plus take care of my family and I would do it all over again in a heart beat. Bounceing back after he passed was hard but I pulled myself up and just kept going.

I am tough every day - with a job in education & budget cuts left & right - I never know. But my true resilience was 3 years ago. My dad died very suddenly while I was on vacation. Then 1 month later I had a biopsy on my thyroid. Six months after that I had to have my thyroid removed due to cancer. Three years later I am going strong....I am a survivor. I am resilient.

My resilience has been successfully raising 2 beautiful daughters as a single parent. It all started when my youngest was in Kindergarten and is now finishing her Sophomore year in college. The oldest was in 4th grade and has now graduated from college (debt free) and is in the corporate world working.
It has never been easy, but God had a plan for us.

I've been a single Mom to ten year old twins since they were a year old... They have grown into two wonderful, happy, respectful children and bring so much joy to my life and to the lives of everyone they know!!

My resilience is that I haven't choked my husband yet! We've been packing to move and he wants to take everything that isn't nailed down. We've lived in this house for 36 years and there is a lot of stuff that won't fit into our new house!

I've had to stick to my values lately while managing not to alienate my teen daughter. We want the best for her future and we know she does, too. Working together for the past three and a half months has been a challenge, but she rose over a hill last week when we finally helped her see how ("it's the little things") small changes in the way she lives her life are creating open pathways for her to travel. Resiliance can mean standing firm AND moving forward! Thanks, Ali!

Resilience for me means being here no matter what changes have happened in my life; childhood abuse, moving every few years, losing those I love, job loss, etc. Being able to sit and write this comment is resilience...I am here, loving life, helping others and still learning. Good stuff...

Resilience to is fighting back after my stroke at 50.

I have lost 40 kilos in the past year - Mamma, I have Re-sil-ence!!

Great Giveaway! My resilience was strongest when I was widowed at 24. My first husband was killed in a rockslide while saving two of his soldier's lives. And having the faith to believe God had a plan. I was blessed to see a small reason last summer. One of the men saved was on the team that capped the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico! God is a Great God!

I left a career in the accounting field in the middle of america's economic crisis because the stress was literally going to kill me and my dad was fighting cancer. 4 months later I decided to return to school to become a teacher, my true dream career. There were lots of hurdles I had to jump, not being accepting in one program only to be accepting into another better one. Having to take the ACT again, and the c-base (at age 35!). A year ago on the 19th of this month my dad left this world and went home. I've been on the dean's list every semester, have started substituting, and am loving my classes (except for biology - yuck!). We miss our dad VERY much but I think he would be VERY proud! Hard work really does pay off (and I learned that from him).

over tha past year my resiliance kept me going as I rennovated my new house while 'camping out' in it at the same time

Resilience is a great grandfather nearing the end of a long life of 98 years. I hope to live a long and healthy life as he did in his example.

Resilence - well just this week - I worked my job from home, my son was home sick for three days from school, my husband was out of town all week and I had the flu BUT I still got my day job done, my children were showered with love and back on the mend and the house still stands. Crazy what mom's go through!

I had skin cancer surgery on my lip-twice!

My resilience was surviving a cancer diagnosis and going through chemo and managing to go on with my life without interruption. It took a lot of resilience to not just sit down and cry. Love their kits and would love to win one!

getting sick after my first pregnancy and finding out i had lung disease, getting sick after my 2nd pregnancy and finding out i had heart disease, being told to terminate my third pregnancy because there was a high risk it would end fatally but ignoring their advise because of faith, my kids are 19, 15 and 12, im still here. my bad health is not gonna own me. :)

Surviving sick season this year had taken lots of resilience. We've been through pneumonida, influenza, viral meningitis, and countless stomach bugs and sinus infections. Hooray for spring and healthier days around here!

I feel resilient when I think about carrying on a happy, productive life after the death of my Mom from cancer.

I love the pictures on your blog, they get my creative juices flowing.It's finally Spring here, it's nice to hear the birds singing after a Winter of 86 inches of snow!