Self-Care Sunday

The Act of Resilience is More Than Self Care: It is Perseverance

Action Steps to Finding Your Ikigai (Your Purpose) So You Can Be Resilient

Nancy Blackman, MASF
6 min readJun 5, 2022

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Help me to be the best version of myself because your word, Lord, promises that you will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. When I am surrounded by the dryness of uncertainty, fear, change, and trauma, help me to bloom in the desert.

Pour Your peace into every fiber of my being so that I may shine with resilience.

I sat in on a webinar training from Right to Be for the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander and Indigenous (AANHPI) community. One of the words that was used quite often was resilience.

I hadn’t really thought about how I had been resilient throughout my life, but the more suggestions given throughout the webinar only confirmed to me that I have been resilient in my own way.

When you have been through a traumatic event, resiliency helps you to recover a bit easier and quicker.

The word “resilient” means “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness” or “the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.” I know that humans are not objects, but I like the image of…

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Nancy Blackman, MASF
Nancy Blackman, MASF

Written by Nancy Blackman, MASF

Boosted & 8x Top Writer. Owner: Refresh the Soul publication. Editor: The Shortform and Poetry Playground. Published in: “Mixed Korean: Our Stories" — Kindle.

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