I've thought a lot about resilience over the years as I have witnessed, often in awe, other people cope with enormous loss and challenges. In to my sobriety, yes, being part of Pledge100 is teaching me that I can be resilient in this too. Each lesson, each challenge to dig deeper, each time putting my thoughts 'out there' for people to see has been hard and when it's done and I click to complete button I am practicing resilience. When I look at resilience through the lens described, as "the ability to bounce back from adversity and perhaps even become happier, smarter, stronger, and healthier than you were before." I recognize the truth in that statement because I am finding that without numbing myself with alcohol every evening I am indeed truly becoming happier , smarter, stronger, and healthier than I was even a few short months ago. I am grateful. -A.H.-Thonond 2022 I think knowing life is hard, not fair, and not expecting it to be easy has made me a very resilient person. Being sober has just reaffirmed what I already knew, every day is a gift, health is a gift, and shite happens, none of us are immune. Knowing these facts helps me build up my sobriety resilience every day. -Shana E.- Thmond 2922
My resilience muscle was severely atrophied when I was drinking. Rebuilding it has not been an easy task. Trusting myself to weather difficult situations is an ongoing resilience workout. With every challenge, conflict, responsibility, every up and every down, my resilience becomes more reliable. Stronger. I am able to trust it more knowing that by facing it all, by being here (and not thinking about being somewhere else, doing something else, with someone else) my resilience muscle is getting stronger and more reliable. The biggest flex of all was putting the glass down. And every day that I commit to not today, lady, not today, I’m just stretching that muscle and it just keeps getting stronger. -M.O.S.-Thomond 2022
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