This post has so many of my favorite things, psychology, rawness, resilience, active listening, the power (and love) of words… and a squirrel, no less! 🐿️ It’s beautifully layered, both clinical and deeply human. “Resiliencing” is going straight into my vocabulary, it names the work so many of us are quietly doing. 💛✨
Thank you! Yes, we are resiliencing....as there is little choice to do otherwise! That squirrel has taunted my cat daily-right outside the sliding glass door, with no fear and a full belly of bird seed.
That squirrel sounds like an icon, honestly. Full belly, zero fear, casually disrupting the domestic order like a tiny, fluffy agent of chaos. If that’s not the energy of “resiliencing,” I don’t know what is.
Couldn’t agree more, words do matter. “Be impeccable with your words” is the first of the four agreements from the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. I wish I were more consistently successful with this, but it’s important to keep trying. I am impressed and thankful for the words you are expressing in these posts.
I also love resiliencing as a verb, though I am really unclear how to pronounce. I too often have words that are real to me and I forget they don't exist in other peoples lexicon.
I can attest that squirrels are very good at breaking into the most secure bird feeders...
I have taken it as a challenge. The lengths that I have gone to in an attempt to outsmart them. You have no idea.
And of course, I failed. Squirrel 2, DiBlasio 0
This is a powerful piece. I love "resiliencing" as a verb! What a great choice to describe what needs to happen to move beyond the violence.
I, too, create words when needed like a recent chapter involving Peter Rabbit who periscoped between the cabbages.
You are my 233rd bedtime story in this story circle. Thx for sharing!
Love it! sometimes the new words capture the thought better!
Exactly!
Love the focus on what we can do actively to increase resilience! It is not static!
Exactly!
This post has so many of my favorite things, psychology, rawness, resilience, active listening, the power (and love) of words… and a squirrel, no less! 🐿️ It’s beautifully layered, both clinical and deeply human. “Resiliencing” is going straight into my vocabulary, it names the work so many of us are quietly doing. 💛✨
Thank you! Yes, we are resiliencing....as there is little choice to do otherwise! That squirrel has taunted my cat daily-right outside the sliding glass door, with no fear and a full belly of bird seed.
That squirrel sounds like an icon, honestly. Full belly, zero fear, casually disrupting the domestic order like a tiny, fluffy agent of chaos. If that’s not the energy of “resiliencing,” I don’t know what is.
Thanks for sharing your words on here and introducing this shift of resilience as the verb, a process even when people are on the way 🙏
Going to start using resiliencing. Brilliant.
Couldn’t agree more, words do matter. “Be impeccable with your words” is the first of the four agreements from the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. I wish I were more consistently successful with this, but it’s important to keep trying. I am impressed and thankful for the words you are expressing in these posts.
Thank you! I too have read the four agreements. I try….
I also love resiliencing as a verb, though I am really unclear how to pronounce. I too often have words that are real to me and I forget they don't exist in other peoples lexicon.
you can pronounce any way you want! Just practice!