Category: I Am Resilient Stories

After graduate school, I moved to China and wanted to do a good job in my work in a new city, a new country, another culture, and a new language. I became completely overwhelmed with doubt while planning my first bilingual fundraising event that was

I suffered a deep depression after my relationship ended, and my name was being exploited in my very successful business. I grew up with a heart that believed in the inherent goodness of people. I was often too trusting and too kind for my own

Alcohol and drug addiction had taken over my life. I could not go a day without drinking a bottle of wine or six cans of beer. I had been trying to stop for five years but failed every time and was in a very bad

Resilience reared its head for me when I had to resign from a job I had known and loved all my life because the organization’s failure victimized me. I had felt my life had come to an end, with hopelessness, devastation, feelings of guilt, and

Born of poverty, homelessness, & multiple failures in academia, I still achieved my dream, my MBA. Navigating the journey to achieve my MBA was as if the odds were stacked against me. You see, I wasn’t an academic and came from humble beginnings. Coming from

I never saw it coming … As I sit here reflecting, wondering about all the times in my life when I had to lean into my inner core and hold on for dear life (what some people call resistance), it makes me feel two things.

When my oldest daughter was diagnosed with cancer involving multiple tumors in her brain, our lives turned upside down literally in a day. After resigning from my job to try to find a miracle cure for her, we no longer had income, which caused a

Girlhood dreams don’t always go according to plan… even if you are the world’s best wedding planner, writer, or… whatever. A sucker punch to the gut. The wind rushed from my ribcage, expelling out my cheeks faster than the car could slow. “What happened?” echoes

I had an emergency back injury that rendered me unable to walk. I’m no stranger to hard times. At the age of 6, I was savagely bit in the face by my friend’s dog during a backyard BBQ. It took weeks in the hospital, years

I walked away from a high-paying client due to antisemitism right at the beginning of the pandemic, as the world was shutting down. As a proud Jewish woman, I always believed I’d be shielded from the harsh reality of blatant antisemitism. Yet, there I was,