CHAPTER 8
The Resilience Bank Account
Our best selves. We know it when we have it: we operate at a high level of energy, we are actively engaged with whatever we are doing, we are open to and feel warmth and compassion toward others, we are creative, and we feel as if the curve balls of life can be turned into home runs.
—MICHAEL MADDAUS, M.D.
Do you remember opening your first bank account? Maybe you had a little wad of birthday bills and checks. You went with your dad, mom, or the adult you trusted the most down to the local branch. The fluorescent lighting. It was bright and dim all at the same time. The velvet quiet. That smell of metal and paper was intoxicating. That giant vault at that bank that looked like something out of an old cowboy ...
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