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Phoenix Rising in Resilience (AZ)

We are an online collaborative dedicated to raising awareness about ACEs, trauma-informed practice, and resilience-building in the greater Phoenix area. Given the unique history of this city and region, Phoenix Rising will explore personal and historical sources of trauma.

Resilience

Resilience is the art of giving thanks when less is more. It is seeing expectancy, when there seems like no end. It is simply staying true to what matters most; faith, respect, dignity, and persistence. Resilience is often displayed daily. Whether we have a small or large task to achieve.

It’s the light at the end of the tunnel. What will allow one to have the greatest hope and resiliency in any situation is to remain grounded. Never forget the solid principles that allowed you to navigate safely and successfully throughout your environment. Those principles that held you over during those “hard times.” Those “get by” sentiments that proceeded to allow you to so called, “keep your head up.”

Resilience is exactly what it means. Being humble and real no matter the situation. Standing your ground, reciprocating respect, and being kind. Resilience allows one to have a sense of order and freedom in their lives. It promotes overall health and well-being, healthy control of one’s environment. It does not create biases, it creates unity. It allows one to develop a greater sense of self. Resilience, it is the drive to pursue greater no matter the circumstances.

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It seems like you are describing "persistence", not "resilience".



It is (or it should be) a critical distinction.



"Persistence" usually places the burden or the "drive" or the pressure on "self" and "self-reliance"  Persistence, as a trait to admire,  is embedded in western culture.  It sounds good:  If you keep working hard and smart, you'll win.  "Pull your own self up by your bootstraps".



But.



There are personal costs:  It is hard.  It is exhausting.  It is lonely.  Ultimately, all accountability is shifted from "the tribe" to the singular, "mighty" individual.  The weakness in logic?  There is no "mighty" individual.  We are social beings.  We need the tribe.  We need each other.



Other concerns include that when "winning" (and thus losing) is introduced, by definition things become competitive.  Usually versus the "other".  If not, then against standards and measures (indirectly still against the "other").  Who determines those measures of accountability?  How?  Accountability to  . . .?  In our environment of limited resources, someone(s) in the competition will end up with less when one competes for more.  The hard, exhausting, lonely efforts grow still deeper in competition.



Is persistent, self-focussed reliance a concept to admire ?  Or to be wary of?



Self-reliant persistence is certainly distinct from "resilience".  Resilience is a social process.  Resilience requires supprt of a "tribe", it is not an individual trait.

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