Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

Resilience isn't about staying calm when a patient cancels last minute or your schedule implodes

23 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Kelly Alhooie (creator) presents a short YouTube monologue framing emotional resilience as the speed of returning to baseline after an upsetting event. She emphasizes measuring progress by how quickly one recovers (from minutes to weeks historically) and contrasts resiliency with the idea of not reacting at all. The tone is candid and practical.

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I want to know your mindset around the resilience aspect. I look at resiliency as how quickly you can return to baseline. So resiliency is essentially like gag. You're what? That was good. Okay, so, whoa. Like, this is your emotional state, and then an. An event occurs, and then your emotional state goes here or goes here. And resiliency is just how quickly can you go back here to where you were prior? I just focus on the speed. I don't focus on not having a reaction. Like, someone can come in my office, they can tell me some really bad news, and I can be like, motherfucker. And then I'm like, yeah, okay, we're gonna fix it within, like, 60 seconds. You know, I look at the very beginning of my business career, if something bad had happened, it might have taken me three weeks to regulate myself emotionally. You know, I'm up thinking about it. I'm ruminating on it. I'm stressed about it now. It takes me a few minutes. I've measured my progress for resiliency just by what's the speed that I can get back to baseline?