Building Resilience Through Pain
What does it mean to have resilience and how do resilient people think? A Fearful Phone Call Last night, after an evening of martial arts training, I noticed a missed call and voice mail from my ten-year-old, searching for reassurance I was okay. She was having ruminating thoughts that something might happen or has happened to me. Not the first time I have received those calls, like many of us parents. Humans have vivid imaginations, and we can be wrecked by fear if we get hijacked. Memories of My Own Childhood It brings back memories of my own childhood and the fear of losing my own mom as a kid and how I could not imagine a life without her. Looking back, I know I spent a lot of time in anxious, ruminating thoughts fearing one day I may be taken over by debilitating emotional pain, that would leave me