🌱 Resilience

🌱 Resilience

“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”

– Yasmin Mogahed

[image: the first snowdrops of the year]

🌱 I’ve been thinking a lot about resilience this week. I’m experiencing resilience in my friends, family, students, and colleagues in how we are connecting in this time of uncertainty and isolation.  I’m experiencing resilience in our communities in how we are offering support to each other, especially those who are more vulnerable. 

🌱 Resilience is not something I do or am by myself, alone. For me, resilience comes from acknowledging suffering and anxiety and despair, having compassion in that moment, and then allowing myself to reveal my vulnerability to another person. “I’m hurting and I need help.”  Resilience comes from recognizing someone else’s vulnerability and offering to help. “I see you and I’m here.”

🌱 When I think of resilience I think of a ball bouncing. In order for a ball to bounce and rebound upward, it needs something to rebound from. The ball needs to meet the ground in order to bounce back up. Telling someone to “stay strong” without the ground of WHAT IS, is not as supportive as helping them to get grounded so you can both bounce up - together. 

🌱 Who can you bounce with today?

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