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Grief changed me, and that was never meant to be understood

After Watching My Mother Leave,  Life No Longer Looked the Same My mother did not have a long illness. There was no warning, no preparation, no slow goodbye. She had a viral infection. She was vomiting.We admitted her to the hospital believing she would return home. She didn’t. I was with her in the hospitalContinue reading “Grief changed me, and that was never meant to be understood”

Psychological resilience

Psychological resilience isn’t developed through constant positivity or feeling good all the time; rather, it emerges from learning how to navigate and endure discomfort, challenges, and negative emotions. Resilience is about getting better at feeling bad—facing stress, fear, disappointment, or failure and still finding ways to move forward. When we embrace discomfort, we develop theContinue reading “Psychological resilience”