Joseph Casciani has survived falls, strokes, amputations, and chronic illnesses. He argues that while recovery varies widely, the mind can stay positive even when the body fails, and everyone has an inner resilience that no setback can take away.
like after a fall or a stroke or an amputation or a debilitating chronic disease like multiple sclerosis, COPD, or kidney disease. How can some manage and others cannot? The second lesson is that the body doesn't always cooperate, but we still have our mind, except in cases of dementia, and that's a different conversation. But we always have the me in there to keep that positive outlook, to stay motivated even when the body isn't cooperating, to get up each day with a smile on our face and move forward. The third lesson I learned is that there is a bottomless reserve of determination or grit or resilience, whatever you want to call it, inside each of us, a flame that doesn't go out. The fire inside us is so necessary to being able to cope with these setbacks, and the best part about this inner resilience is that no one can take it away from us. It's ours forever.
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