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7. Resilience redefined

Lia Lieghio

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For much of my life, resilience meant being tough, holding it all together, never bending. But toughness has a breaking point. Over time, I’ve come to see that resilience is softer, it’s in flexibility, in allowing ourselves to rest, in starting over when we need to. Here, I reflect on shifting from hardness to gentleness and why strength can also be found in softness.