From “Telling Stories in the Dark: Finding healing and hope in sharing our sadness, grief, trauma, and pain” by Jeffrey Munroe
As we’ve seen in earlier chapters, Roger Nelson, Quentin Henry, and Mitch Kinsinger demonstrate remarkable resilience. I asked Chuck DeGroat to help me understand resilience and where it comes from.
“Resilience comes as we live out of our True Self,” Chuck said. “Resilient people are not as prone to be flooded by their emotions. I call this wholeheartedness. The Apostle Paul called it the ‘new self.’ It means living less out of the shadows. The True Self is more spacious, more free, more able to define what its emotions are without being dominated by those emotions. It can speak of sadness without becoming that sadness. The True self can speak of feeling anger without becoming anger. My True Self can speak on behalf of my anger.”