Life on Hold: Transitions Waiting to Happen

Posted by Transitions Through Life on June 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

“I haven’t died on schedule” wrote Mark Trautwein in his New York Times opinion piece (Sunday, June 5, 2011, p. 8). After his diagnosis he lived his life waiting to die. Prince Charles has spent a lifetime waiting to be King.

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Bouncing Forward, Not Backward—A New Look at Resilience

Posted by Nancy K Schlossberg Ed.D. on March 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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Bouncing Forward, Not Backward—A New Look at Resilience

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Bouncing Forward, Not Backward—A New Look at Resilience

Posted by Transitions Through Life on March 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The rubber band is often used as the metaphor for resilience. It indicates that once pushed beyond what you can handle, with resilience, you eventually bounce back to where you are. But is bouncing back the right metaphor? Will anything ever be the same for the miners who were trapped in the Chilean mines? Or for those devastated by recent events in Japan?

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