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5 Lessons I’ve Learned from Resilience

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The Destined Newsletter

5 Lessons I’ve Learned from Resilience || December 2025 || ISSUE #18

Author of the memoir Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds

Dear Reader,

Throughout my life, I’ve had to be resilient to survive, to live, to thrive.

I share my journey in my memoir Destined.

Here are 5 lessons I’ve learned from resilience.

  1. Resilience is not only about dealing with hard times and overcoming them; it’s also about recognizing how far you’ve come and who you’ve become in that process.
  2. Resilience is refusing to give up on yourself no matter what life throws at you.
  3. Resilience is believing without a doubt that what is meant for you in your lifetime will happen.
  4. Resilience is being able to forgive yourself and others over and over again.
  5. Resilience is giving yourself time and space to breathe and to simply enjoy and appreciate your blessings.

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What lessons have you learned from resilience?

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Wishing you a wonderful end of year and many blessings in 2026.

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Aminata Sy

Author of Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds

4508 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19139
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