Examples Of Resiliency

Resiliency is important to me because my mother is a product of resiliency, and I would not be who I am today if she was not who she is. I have seen resiliency first hand through my mother. My mom is the middle and only girl in a family of five children. Her family was warm, loving, and close knit. When she was nine years old her parents adopted a 14-year-old foster girl. This changed my mom’s world as she started being abused both physically and emotional by this girl, which went on for over four years. When asked about when the abuse started my mom said, “I had no concept of abuse before this happened, it shattered my safe little world”. My mom hide the abuse from her family and friends as she felt that her parents were trying to do good thing for this girl and she did not want take that away from them. However, after about seven months the abused escalated to a point that my mother could no longer hide it and she was sent to live with her Aunt for four months until the social worker felt it was safe for my mother to come home again. However, she was not and the abuse continued for about four years, again she told no one.

The kind of physical and emotional abuse my

I have watched her be the leader of our family and face every challenge we have encountered calmly and gracefully. When my oldest brother got sick, when my dad fell 20 feet and broke multiple bones, when my middle brother tested her, and when I struggled with my own challenges – my mother was the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, and voice of hope that kept us all moving forward together. She may still struggle with her confidence and self-worth but she has instilled that in my brothers and I, along with empathy, kindness, and the ability to always find the