How Strong Is Your Resilience Muscle? 💪

Name: How Strong Is Your Resilience Muscle? 💪
Uploaded: 2025-03-06T18:05:55+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this segment of the video, the speaker shares a recent, vivid personal test of resilience. After returning from abroad on January 11, she discovers…

6 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of the video, the speaker shares a recent, vivid personal test of resilience. After returning from abroad on January 11, she discovers that her Topanga Canyon neighborhood is under evacuation due to nearby wildfires. While watching the unfolding disaster from a distance, she experiences a rapid swing of emotions—from relief that she is safe, to despair over the potential loss of her home. She consciously applies a mental coping technique: she acknowledges the possible devastation but decides to postpone grieving until (and unless) the loss actually occurs, illustrating an active, forward‑looking resilience practice.

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We all have opportunities all the time to use our resilience muscle. But I had a particular instance over the last month where I was out of the country, came back on the 11th of January to the fires and to my neighborhood being right in the line of those fires, Topanga Canyon. Everybody in my area was evacuated, so I couldn't go home., and I could just sit, watch on TV what was transpiring. So I was experiencing all of these different feelings from relief to despair. And I stopped myself and I said, okay, if it burns down, that's going to be terrible. But I don't have to go through that experience until and if it happens.