Resilience: women of returning soldiers
7 December 2009
Is being resilient a human quality rooted in a person’s nature, a vital part for self-affirmation, or does resilience stem from someone’s sense of purpose and personal mission? Does the resilient person act according to a desire to reach higher levels of identity and potential? Is it a process toward becoming? All these ideas suggest a highly personal nature to resiliency.
Resilient women endeavour to be strong in all seven areas of their lives. This creates a strong foundation to deal with not only the challenges of life, but it helps them to see every challenge as an opportunity for learning, another step to reach their highest potential.
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30 November 2009
Resilient women coping with returning soldiers need a plan, a strategy to help them support their loved one as he or she deals with reintegration into ‘normality’. In Part One, you dealt with setting your goals, your plans to achieve greater resilience to help your returned soldier. Part Two is about thinking and deciding whether these goals are the right ones before you move towards taking action.
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22 November 2009
Many soldiers are returning home with different degrees of mental trauma. It is you womenfolk of the household who nourish and nurture them towards normality. It is your resilience that helps your returning soldier come to terms with life and start afresh. What can you do to strengthen your resilience?
Have a plan, a strategy, goals that you can refer to, reassess and alter according to results.
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13 November 2009
Mothers, lovers and wives send their men to war filled with the hope they will return. Of all the soldiers there, theirs will return. Tough, resilient, back to normal.
They spend day after day, night after night, worrying about their safety. Each time someone is wounded or killed, this anxiety inches ever upward. Yet they remain resilient; to ‘be there’ for their man to return to.
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