How My Resilience Changed My Life

Resilience is about how an individual deals, resists, recovers and learns from adversity’s in life. If a child is resilient they are less likely to be damaged as a result of negative experiences and are more likely to learn from and move on. In order for a child to be resilient they need to believe in themselves and have others they can rely on in their lives.

Resilience is the power or the ability to return to the original form. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range” (94). Father Gregory Boyle says this because he knows that resilience is needed in order to change. Resilience is important because we can become better people by doing things, we thought we couldn’t do. In the book, Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, Boyle claims resilience is essential in our lives because it is the key to do better.

Resilience, when asked to define and explain the act of being resilient, can be a hard thing to describe. It is something everyone must be at one point in their lives, and what some people must be every day. There are different levels to it, depending on what the person is going through at the time. However, resilience is commonly described as just staying strong in a tough situation or time in a person’s life. When something goes wrong, or something bad happens, the person affected doesn’t let it break them. They stand strong against whatever is being thrown at them, but they bend when they need to. Someone who is resilient is flexible, making sure they don’t crack under pressure. As Robert Jordan said in The Fires of Heaven, “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

Resilience is the power or the ability to return to the original form. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range” (94). Father Gregory Boyle says this because he knows that resilience is needed in order to change. Resilience is important because we can become better people by doing things, we thought we couldn’t do. In the book, Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Father Gregory Boyle, resilience is essential in our lives because it is the key to do better.

Resilience is a skill that you develop over time through your experiences. People with this quality are able to gather their strength and keep going even when it seems futile to do so. Human resilience can be defined as the ability to come from your lowest point, back to your highest. It is the ability to get back up even when everything and everyone is pushing you down. Resilience can be expressed in several different ways and different people will have different beliefs on what it means to be resilient. In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls and her family face numerous trials that require resilience to carry on from. Examples of this quality can be found in both The Glass Castle and in a quote from Elizabeth Edwards.

Able to recover quickly from misfortune; able to return to original form after being bent, compressed, or stretched out of shape. A human ability to recover quickly from disruptive change, or misfortune without being overwhelmed or acting in dysfunctional or harmful ways. As in "Our team showed great resilience," or "Our team had good resiliency." (n.d.)

In the science of resilience, Bari Walsh defines the meaning of resilience by using Jack Shankov’s definition - “a positive, adaptive response in the face of significant adversity”. (gse.harvard). Basically resilience is the capacity to quickly recover from toughness of life.

Resilience is the ability to bounce back from life’s daily challenges it’s about being strong and having the ability to respond positively to what life throws at us. We may find ourselves in many challenging and stressful situations throughout life however having the skills needed to cope and deal with them helps us have an effective response to all negative situations.

Resiliency -noun, the ability to recover readily form illness, depression , adversity, or the like. This is a subject that I would like to just skip or not even talk about but I know that it is necessary. Its not the idea of being resilient that I despise, but what accompanies it. I know that because of what has happened to me, has made me a stronger person. I know that Randy Pausch had to show resiliency with his own death but I had to do the same with an others. My mother, Nancy J. Smith, died on February 11th, 2007. She died

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