Resilience Defined

We all pride ourselves on just how resilient we are, citing challenges we have faced and overcome in the past, and listing examples that seem self-evident proof that we can "bounce back" in record time. We recount how, days or weeks after a surgery or an illness or a tragic loss, we were able to do "this or that" as proof of our own resilience, our inner strength. We tell these stories not only to others, but to ourselves to reaffirm that we are, in fact, back from that setback.Everyone suffers