

Heroic Change Journal		Awareness~Action~Service January 2007

Greetings,

Welcome to the New Year, which is so full of promise and full of opportunities! It is our chance to stretch our character to become the best we can be, no matter what events occur.

I started the year by breaking my foot. Not exactly what I consciously had in mind for the New Year. But, somehow very fitting for the focus of this issue that I was already writing on RESILIENCE. (Be careful what I choose to write about, right!)

While it has been challenging to deal with ordinary daily activities, my injury has definitely made me appreciate my overall good health, wonderful husband and great support network. It has also made me think about how people cope with serious physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges.

This issue is devoted to finding the heroism within to deal with whatever life hands us. I hope you find it valuable and inspiring. Please feel free to pass it on to anyone you know who can use a boost of resilience, especially at this time of year.

Marion Moss Hubbard, Ph.D.
619-322-5580
marion@heroicjourney.com

In This Issue

	Boost Your Bounce Back Quotient Edie's Story: Turning Broken Bones Into Dancing Morgan's Story: Changing the Game New Booklet Now Available! Test Your Heroic Mettle! Food for Thought

Edie's Story: Turning Broken Bones Into Dancing

Edie's story began in Kassa, Hungry where she grew up with her parents and older sisters, Magda and Klara. In May of 1944 at the age of 16 her life changed forever. Edie was sent by the Germans to Auschwitz concentration camp along with her parents and sister Magda.

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Test Your Heroic Mettle!

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Food for Thought

"On our way to the concentration camp, my mother said, 'They can take everything from you except what you put in your mind.' They took her away from me, but they could not take my freedom of thought. I was to learn that many people create their own concentration camps in their minds. To escape, you must forgive yourself and others. Accept the world as imperfect. It's not the situation, but what you do with it. Concentrate on what is left, not what was lost."
�Edie Eger

Boost Your Bounce Back Quotient

I am constantly amazed at the resiliency of the human spirit in the midst of personal and collective challenges. Resilience seems to cross socioeconomic lines, educational background and spiritual perspectives. Some people who seem to have many advantages in life are consumed by their setbacks. Others, who have one obstacle after another, preserver and become stronger from their experiences.

So what is it that helps some people cope more effectively with difficulty than others? I call it the Bounce Back Factor. It is the invisible, but very real heroic reserve that some people innately know how to tap into and others can learn how to access.