Wanted: Essays on Resilience

Simona
Apr 23, 2024
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We are a community of about 500 persons working on recovery from traumatic stress.

We do a lot of journaling, sharing, and healing together, but what keeps us encouraged are stories of resilience.

We want to hear from women of a certain age, women mature in life experience.

The ideal respondent is in her silver or golden years. She’s at peace with her past, enjoying her present, alive in her heart space. It’s the heroine’s journey, having life throw a difficult curve ball, and yet we survive, we come through the experience with strength, wisdom, and hope to share.

We’d love to hear how you got through a difficult time with the help of your friends; with the help of professional support. What personal practices did you use? In light of this experience, what did you learn about yourself over the years that you obviously didn’t/couldn't have known then?

Your readers here have been through incredible challenges. Some of your readers here feel like they can’t see their way through in this moment. We’d love to read your relatable story, laced with encouragement and effective tools or coping strategies for difficult life challenges. Rather than teach the tools or speak the encouragement, these are embedded in the story.

Stories of Disruption + What we gleaned from the experience (having found strength, hope, solutions to share)

  • Death of a loved one, other great loss

  • Abuse or Discrimination or Stigmas

  • Financial stress or other Survival Stress

  • Betrayals, Abandonments, Disappointments 

  • Dissolutions (the end of a business, end of a marriage, end of an important friendship)

  • Familial or social conflicts

  • Medical issues

The Structure of a Submission

  • What happened or what were the series of events

  • What you did/discovered that helped you move through the challenge/s

  • What was the life lesson or wisdom earned

  • Signature: Name & Age (present day photo is desired by not required)

1500 words or less, please. If you need more words to tell the story well, use them. We reserve the right to edit (lightly) for flow. Send me a note with any questions.