How does the idea of resilience being 'bouncing back stronger' fit to experiencing traumatic life events? What can resilience in grief look like?
Kate Armstrong is an avid amateur mountaineer, skier and (sometimes ultra) runner. Over the past twenty years she’s climbed across the UK and Alps, and done two serious expeditions to the Himalaya. She’s a writer – her novel called The Storyteller was published in 2016 and longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. She’s recently finished a Creative Writing MFA.
She says she used to believe wholeheartedly in motivational sayings like ‘if you try hard enough you can achieve anything’. Through a series of devastating personal experiences, including the death her partner Matthew after a climbing accident, she’s says she has now changed her mind – and so I wanted to talk to her to ask her what her sense of resilience is.
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