RESILIENCE.
A BLOG ON HUMAN RESILIENCE, STOICISM AND FORTITUDE
On Courage
No life is free of difficult decisions.
The tough conversations. Holding back reactions. The difficult goodbyes. Walking through the door and having everything come to the surface. Allowing it all to hurt, like a hard breakup. Giving something the time and space it needs to leave your experience.
Healing and letting go is a heartbreaking process.
There is beauty in that raw place.
THE FIRE PHASE: Not Who You Used To Be, Not Yet Who You’re Becoming
There comes a point in every major transformation where you no longer recognize the person you used to be, but you haven't yet become the person you're working toward. It's an unsettling place to stand, but it’s also intensely exciting.
It's your personal blank canvas. What you become next is yours to paint.
Why Love Is the Strongest Form of Courage
When pain feels unbearable, the answer is still love. When the world around us crumbles into chaos, the answer is love. When darkness becomes all encompassing, enticing us to collapse into it, to get lost in it, the answer is still love, because love is more powerful than darkness will ever be.
But love has to be chosen consciously.
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.
When Life Asks You For Change
When life asks you for change—to change where you are, what you’re doing, or how you’re showing up, you have to listen. The growth that’s on its way will show up regardless, in one form or another. As humans, we’re built to create not a perfectly manicured life, but a beautifully imperfect one.
From Fear to Flight: A Lesson in Courage
When you make a choice like that, to face something or chase growth, life will meet you in that place to give you exactly what you need: opportunities to face what you're choosing to face. Environments, relationships, circumstances will shift to accommodate your new direction of growth. Life will move heaven and earth, so to speak, to allow you the chance to grow.
A Personal Update: Reinventing Yourself Through Life's Biggest Changes
Sometimes, when you change everything, life gives you everything you asked for.
Often, in the midst of that change, you really have to lean into the faith that everything will all work out in your favour. Control what you can, let go of the desire to control what you can’t. Life is a wild ride. I don’t think any of us can dispute that. If you crave to feel more wildly passionate and alive, you need to create opportunities for yourself to live harder, explore your truths and find out what you're made of.
Emotional Resilience: Riding The Wave
We talk about riding the wave of emotions, but what does that actually feel like?
Sports always relate back to life, and their tendency to act as endless metaphors for living mean they never stop handing out opportunities to learn more about ourselves through them. Experiencing the rawness of the present moment with surfing, snowboarding, or any adventure sport whether you’re succeeding at it or not — quite often, more intensely when you don’t — is an experience that stops time.
Driving Yourself To Do Hard Things
It’s the hard thing that gets procrastinated on, day after day.
The heavy feeling that pushes you further into the couch.
The doubt in your mind that makes you not want to leave bed in the morning.
Resilience Through Discipline
In order to learn how to weather what’s difficult, resilience can be practiced through discipline. This becomes a skill, which becomes habit and eventually grows into an inseparable part of who you are. You build yourself every day, choosing who you get to become through your relationship with discipline.
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