{"id":377,"date":"2009-04-30T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/elizabeth-edwards-resilient-journey.html"},"modified":"2009-04-30T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:00:58","slug":"elizabeth-edwards-resilient-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/elizabeth-edwards-resilient-journey.html","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Edwards&#8217; Resilience, and Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/elizedwards.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elizedwards.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/elizedwards-thumb-220x253-4678.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"253\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/span>Elizabeth Edwards&#8217; resilience has been tested many times, which is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Resilience-Reflections-Burdens-Facing-Adversities\/dp\/076793136X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1241111730&amp;sr=8-1\">her new book &#8220;Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Life&#8217;s Adversities&#8221; <\/a>is so smartly titled.&nbsp; The loss of her son in 1996. The defeat in the 2000 presidential election. The diagnosis with breast cancer shortly after that.&nbsp; The recurrence of the cancer during the 2004 presidential campaign.&nbsp; The public revelation of her husband&#8217;s affair. The lies. The pain. The anger.&nbsp; This woman has been tested.<\/p>\n<p>As have we all, in our own lives.&nbsp; In honor of the conversation Edwards&#8217; book is starting (continuing), I thought I&#8217;d ask for your thoughts on resilience.&nbsp; <b>What role has it played in your life?&nbsp; Who do you most admire for displaying it?&nbsp; When have you surprised yourself with it?<\/b>&nbsp; Looking forward to your stories.<\/p>\n<p>(image via: <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.newsday.com\/news\/local\/longisland\/politics\/blog\/2008\/04\/\">http:\/\/weblogs.newsday.com\/news\/local\/longisland\/politics\/blog\/2008\/04\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Edwards&#8217; resilience has been tested many times, which is why her new book &#8220;Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Life&#8217;s Adversities&#8221; is so smartly titled.&nbsp; The loss of her son in 1996. The defeat in the 2000 presidential election. The diagnosis with breast cancer shortly after that.&nbsp; The recurrence of the cancer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,229],"tags":[454,456,455],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events","category-relationships","tag-elizabeth-edwards","tag-john-edwards","tag-resilience"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elizabeth Edwards&#039; Resilience, and Yours - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/elizabeth-edwards-resilient-journey.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elizabeth Edwards&#039; Resilience, and Yours - Fresh Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elizabeth Edwards&#8217; resilience has been tested many times, which is why her new book &#8220;Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Life&#8217;s Adversities&#8221; is so smartly titled.&nbsp; The loss of her son in 1996. 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