Resilience and Reinvention
re·sil·ience
/rəˈzilyəns/
re·in·ven·tion
/rēinˈven(t)SHən/
Being resilient means we can bounce back to our previous state, after we’ve been rocked. When we reinvent ourselves, we take on something entirely new.
Today, we are facing the need for both these qualities. Some of us have lost loved ones, jobs, relationships, even hope.
It’s hard not to mourn the “old normal.” Hanging out with friends, arm-in-arm, plotting our careers and relationships with confidence and bright anticipation. We knew how to work the system and get ahead. In short, we felt safe.
We want to be able to bounce back to that old life as soon as possible. But there’s a difference between resilience and attachment.
It appears that things aren’t going back to the way they were. In fact, they never do! Our belief in a static existence is merely a prop we lean upon. There’s always a new normal coming. Right now it is impossible to miss this basic truth. Covid has changed everyone's lives.
We can’t quite visualize the new normal yet, and we are likely resisting it. Enter paralysis and anxiety.
Reinvention will mean letting go of the attachment to how things were, and looking to possibilities in this new unknown. Being in action, creating and recreating ourselves may be the most effective balm for our worrying.
Here is the real gift of resilience: Remember that confidence and bright anticipation we had back when the world was known? We don’t have to bounce back to “that world” to enjoy THAT state of being. You get to choose to be hopeful in whatever the world offers you.
Who we choose to be is the one gift that no one can take from us.
Richard Rohr talks about mystical hope as a state of being “that’s not tied to a good outcome, or the future. It lives a life of its own. It has to do with presence--the experience of being held in communion. It bears fruit in the sensations of strength, joy, and satisfaction: an ‘unbearable lightness of being.’ But not from outward expectations being met, it seems to produce them from within. . .”
Be resilient in your authenticity, vision and hope. And reinvent yourself continually, from possibility, purpose and play.
We've got you. Let's make the new normal even better!
Big Time Love,
Tim + Taren
/rəˈzilyəns/
- The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness; elasticity
re·in·ven·tion
/rēinˈven(t)SHən/
- The action or process through which something is changed so much that it appears to be entirely new.
Being resilient means we can bounce back to our previous state, after we’ve been rocked. When we reinvent ourselves, we take on something entirely new.
Today, we are facing the need for both these qualities. Some of us have lost loved ones, jobs, relationships, even hope.
It’s hard not to mourn the “old normal.” Hanging out with friends, arm-in-arm, plotting our careers and relationships with confidence and bright anticipation. We knew how to work the system and get ahead. In short, we felt safe.
We want to be able to bounce back to that old life as soon as possible. But there’s a difference between resilience and attachment.
It appears that things aren’t going back to the way they were. In fact, they never do! Our belief in a static existence is merely a prop we lean upon. There’s always a new normal coming. Right now it is impossible to miss this basic truth. Covid has changed everyone's lives.
We can’t quite visualize the new normal yet, and we are likely resisting it. Enter paralysis and anxiety.
Reinvention will mean letting go of the attachment to how things were, and looking to possibilities in this new unknown. Being in action, creating and recreating ourselves may be the most effective balm for our worrying.
Here is the real gift of resilience: Remember that confidence and bright anticipation we had back when the world was known? We don’t have to bounce back to “that world” to enjoy THAT state of being. You get to choose to be hopeful in whatever the world offers you.
Who we choose to be is the one gift that no one can take from us.
Richard Rohr talks about mystical hope as a state of being “that’s not tied to a good outcome, or the future. It lives a life of its own. It has to do with presence--the experience of being held in communion. It bears fruit in the sensations of strength, joy, and satisfaction: an ‘unbearable lightness of being.’ But not from outward expectations being met, it seems to produce them from within. . .”
Be resilient in your authenticity, vision and hope. And reinvent yourself continually, from possibility, purpose and play.
We've got you. Let's make the new normal even better!
Big Time Love,
Tim + Taren