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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Resilience and adaptation
Growth often follows challenge.
Life inevitably brings loss, uncertainty and change. Resilience doesn't mean avoiding difficulty — it means learning that we can move through it. People become resilient when they repeatedly experience: 'I struggled… and I wasn't alone.'
Support, safety and hope allow the nervous system to adapt. Growth is rarely linear. Neither is resilience.
Support, safety and hope allow the nervous system to adapt. Growth is rarely linear. Neither is resilience.
Curiosity changes everything.
The heart of it
A few ideas that make this easier to understand.
Not avoiding difficulty
Moving through it, not around it.
'I wasn't alone'
Resilience grows in connection.
Rarely linear
Growth zig-zags — and so does recovery.
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