Resilience & Healing:
How do we move through difficulty?
What does it mean to have resilience and experience healing? This month, Unsinkable explores recovery, coping, rebuilding, survival, hope, emotional growth, struggle, and setback. Through healing-centred storytelling, we have the opportunity feel more connected to those around us.
Find this month’s featured stories below.
Keep Trying
By Joanna Fensome
Trigger Warning: This Unsinkable story discusses cancer, death, eating disorder, depression. We invite our community to read it only if it's the right time for them!
As we sat in the familiar examination room in the clinic I had been going to since birth, my heart was beating much faster the usual. This was the first time I went to the doctor for anything that wasn’t routine or easy to diagnose and treat. I had recently told my mom that I thought I might have an eating disorder and she had encouraged me to seek help.
Pain Revealed, Power Gained
By Penny Greening
Eating disorders prevalence is climbing in children and teens of every body type, gender, age, and socio-economic background. Penny knows this reality firsthand—and feels deeply compelled to help shift this dangerous curve as her life’s purpose. Since childhood, she has silently grappled with eating disorders and spent years untangling the complex web of biological, psychological, and social factors that shaped her experiences.
Where Does Shame Go
By Rafella Mancuso
Right now I’m really trying to build a life that’s softer; one where I don’t need to shrink myself to avoid bumping into the sharp edges around me. I’m reminding myself that there was never anything wrong with that five-year-old girl who wasn’t invited to the birthday party.
She was perfect just as she was.
And I’m trying to remind myself that she still is.
La Récit de Webster Hyppolite
By Webster Hyppolite
Webster’s story explores resilience through checking in with himself, making adjustments, asking for help, and then choosing to continue.
That's what it means to be unsinkable: not to never struggle, but to develop the capacity to come back to yourself and keep going.