How’s your resilience?

Two steps forward, one step back.  Two steps forward…  If you are facing the challenges of a chronic condition, this phrase most likely has special meaning to you.  The successes, the frustrations, and those unexpected curveballs that can come your way.  But, yet you keep yourself going, one step at a time.  Psychologists call that resilience.  The ability to recover or adjust to misfortune or change.  In other words, picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and getting back on the path.  People who are facing chronic conditions often talk about how their diagnosis has helped them to recognize their own resilience.  They were able to tap into sources of strength, and to be resourceful, in ways they never thought possible.  How’s your resilience these days?