It’s Not Brawn or Brains…It’s Resilience.
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“Resiliency is accepting your new reality, even if it is less good than the one you had before.” – Elizabeth Edwards
As many of you know, my full time job is in the Air Force as a nurse. We have all kinds of training that is required every year; one of them being “Wingman” Training. The military lifestyle definitely has a higher than normal stress level and rates of depression, suicide and divorce are higher than our civilian counterparts. We take a half day to focus on our co-workers and discuss the importance of recognizing signs of distress and helping each other out. One of our topics was on resiliency. The question was, what is it about you that makes you resilient? I can honestly say I had just come back from a week of vacation, had a ton of work to catch up on and really didn’t put any thought into it at the time. However, later that week I found myself thinking about it.