Resilience Is Not an Inner Strength

Here’s why our efforts to hack this quality will never work

Courtney Christine Woods, LSW
Forge
Published in
5 min readOct 18, 2019

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A group of young adults in a circle facing each other, photographed from above, on a painted tarmac surface showing a vortex.
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WWhen I first got divorced, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever be able to make ends meet. I had sole custody of my kids, no child support, and attorney fees five times the piddly amount in my new separate bank account. I was drowning in stress, and it showed. When I showered, a small mammal’s worth of hair clogged…

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Courtney Christine Woods, LSW
Forge
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Storyteller, social worker, solo parent. Fan of triads and alliteration. Believer that we’re all out here doing our best. Find me on FB @courtneycwrites