Resilience Won’t Always Feel Strong
Being resilient isn't always going to feel very strong.
It means wading through what’s tough, making hard decisions and being vulnerable and honest with yourself about how you're really doing. In other words, you express the most resilience when you feel the least comfortable and resilient.
Are you experiencing anything in your life right now that is making you feel resistant or weak?
Lean into that. You can find tremendous power and growth in these places. Understand that you build resilience by stepping into the murky waters of the unknown and facing the dark, uncomfortable places before coming home to yourself.
It’s scary enough to keep the vast majority of people comfortably embedded in comfort and soothing distraction.
If you’re one of the brave ones, give yourself credit. You are incredibly strong. If you want to be, if you crave answers and want to move forward through the abyss of things you have kept locked up inside, then I want you to know this: you are just as powerful as someone who appears to be further ahead on their journey. The only difference? You need to prove it to yourself through your actions.
Actions align you with your integrity.
If this is such a challenging, frightening journey, to leave the safety of illusion and face deep reality, the question then becomes why we would even want to do that in the first place.
The answer?
To empower ourselves to creatively reinvent every situation we walk into in life. To regain our personal power from the situations, relationships and experiences we have left it in over the years. To finally understand that yes, we are capable, powerful and in control of not the entirety of our circumstances, but how we react to them. We are in charge of ourselves. And so, we direct our fate.
Life will always bring the hard things. For the unprepared, they feel overwhelming. For the well prepared, these adversities become a chance to remember our strength and our ultimate ability to leverage it all to our advantage.
What do we discover on this journey? Ourselves.
We find ourselves.
