Resilience

Something that stuck with me in the guide is resilience or the ability to move forward and keep going even when we are in pain, stressed, disappointed, upset, ... I think resilience sometimes gets misunderstood, with people looking at it as never struggling or failing while instead, failure and struggle are central to resilience, especially facing them and growing from them. It is also not a weakness but a strength to ask for help and be able to receive support from others when needed, letting social support guide you thorugh difficult times. 

In the most difficult times of my life is indeed when I have learnt the most. It can feel almost impossible to overcome certain things but once you realize you can overcome those difficult things, you feel like you can almost overcome anything. And it is important to sit with these difficult times and learn from them and observe how you act trying to learn how to become better at confronting hard things. 

To become more resilient I always encourage positive talk, always reassuring oneself that we can achieve the impossible instead of having limiting beliefs telling ourselves we are not capable of something. 

The questions I would like to suggest for discussion are 1. What does resilience particularly mean to you? 2. what is something that has made you more resilient?