Empowering Resilience
I am a teacher of resilience. I help people recenter themselves and understand the power of their minds. I do this work because I have faced my share of adversity, depression, and other challenges in my life. I have spent too much time suffering in situations that were inevitably there only to serve me. I am out to share with others what I have learned throughout those experiences. I hope that they won’t suffer as much as I did. If I can help lighten their load, that is exactly what I want to do.
Life is Happening For Us Not To Us
Throughout those experiences, I have learned to pause and ask myself what is good in this situation? And, what is this challenge ultimately here to teach me? I have learned through years of self-development work that life is always happening for us — not to us. That has a powerful way of settling my disagreement in the heat of the moment.
I recently met Navy Chief Johnathon Stone. He has endured a series of life challenges that have impacted him deeply and left him on a powerful mission to carry out a promise he made to his late wife, Sarah to always seek out and find the good.
Finding Good by Johnathon Stone
When Navy Chief Johnathon Stone’s wife, Sarah, was diagnosed with a rare terminal cancer, he knew his family had to make the most of every moment. After all, they’ve always believed there is good in every day…you just have to find it. Finding Good is a firsthand look at the story of Sarah and Johnathon from falling in love in high school, to moving across the country and raising four children, to spreading hope to the world through acts of kindness, and handling life’s ups and downs as Sarah battled appendix cancer. No matter what challenges you face, if you look hard enough, there will always be something good.
Hear his very moving story in my recent interview with him.
There is Magic in Sharing Ourselves
In 2014, I learned something very powerful. Standing there totally vulnerable on the TED stage, I realized that there is something magical that happens when we find the courage within to share ourselves and our story with others. Our humanness can reach hearts and implore others to see a different perspective.
What have you navigated? What have you overcome? What story do you have within you that could help lighten someone else’s load? What do you wish the younger version of you knew? We all have experiences that have shaped us and that can help another person struggle just a little bit less. I invite you to think about the difference that your story could make for another human being in 2022.
Remember that you + me = a better world. So, please share this article.
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