Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal argues that resilience isn't about toughness or bouncing back fast. Real resilience means embracing vulnerability and taking time to heal, the opposite of the old idea that you suppress trauma and push through.
You've often said that you think that resilience is categorically misunderstood.
I do. Absolutely.
Kind of the old World War II mentality. Those guys just came home from a brutal war. They threw a backpack in a closet, never talked about it again. Mm-hmm. And that was considered the most masculine, resilient thing to do.
Resilience is not about being tougher. Resilience is not about going harder. And resilience is not about coming back from something as quickly as we can. In fact, those three things are the opposite.
Hmm.
Resilience is very much about recovery and also very much about listening to what's happening internally inside of our bodies. And so resilience is very much about actually showing up and allowing people to have a window into what's happening in our lives. Right? Not everyone, but the first practice of highly resilient people is vulnerability.
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