"resilience is less about moving through a challenge, and more about moving through your reaction to it. Rather than centering the challenge, center yourself." - this is going to stick with me for a long time... thank you, Farah!
Yes! Important to bend vs. break. That's how I also have redefined resilience for myself. The conditioning around definition of success and the glamorizing of toughness definitely is a pattern I notice in my clients too. I really admired Jacinda Arden in that regard and her empathy spoke volumes abt resilience.
Hi Farah, Good article. One area that we may differ is the inflexibility. I see resilience as having the ability to be flexible as often our goal we are seeking requires our ability to be flexible in the path as changes around us are constantly occurring. Cheers!
Thanks for commenting, I agree with this! My old definition involved inflexibility, certainly not the new definition :) I see how we can add flexibility into the new definition.
I would probably word it as adaptability instead of flexibility as it means to adjust to new conditions although flexibility is important to (bending without breaking). Cheers!
"resilience is less about moving through a challenge, and more about moving through your reaction to it. Rather than centering the challenge, center yourself." - this is going to stick with me for a long time... thank you, Farah!
Yes! Important to bend vs. break. That's how I also have redefined resilience for myself. The conditioning around definition of success and the glamorizing of toughness definitely is a pattern I notice in my clients too. I really admired Jacinda Arden in that regard and her empathy spoke volumes abt resilience.
She’s fab! What a great example. And I really appreciate your point on conditioning. There are things we’ve learned…and can unlearn.
Hi Farah, Good article. One area that we may differ is the inflexibility. I see resilience as having the ability to be flexible as often our goal we are seeking requires our ability to be flexible in the path as changes around us are constantly occurring. Cheers!
Thanks for commenting, I agree with this! My old definition involved inflexibility, certainly not the new definition :) I see how we can add flexibility into the new definition.
I would probably word it as adaptability instead of flexibility as it means to adjust to new conditions although flexibility is important to (bending without breaking). Cheers!
Thanks for sharing, I like the term adaptability for the reason you state!
I love how you’re redefining resilience, and how we can look inward to find it rather than what we display externally!
Love the word “display” - shows our focus may be on how we appear rather than what our true experience may be