Welcome to Mind Love, episode 15.

Today's episode is all about resilience.

I thought I'm going to interview Holocaust survivors,

war vets, survivors of extreme trauma, some were happy in Jovial and lived productive lives and others

were angry and bitter, understandably. But I was like what's the key? What's the difference?

Turn up your frequency with mind love.

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It's time to give your mind a little love with your host, Melissa Monte. Melissa Monti. Hi friends, I hope you all are doing amazing.

I'm really excited about today's interview and it's got me thinking a lot about how we develop resilience.

How bad we perceive negative occurrences in our lives usually depends on our past experiences.

If you've never had anything bad happen to you,

your first breakup might be the hardest thing you've ever had to deal with,

whereas your best friend might think your pain is trivial if she has already

survived an accident and lost a family member.

Over the last few weeks, I've had the privilege of being a guest on about 15 other

podcasts and in doing this I'm reflecting on my story more than I ever have

before. I'm realizing how much my downward spiral had to do with the fact that I was ill-equipped to deal with trauma when they all hit back to back.

My guest today can definitely relate. Only her story is

mine turned up about three notches. She survived a life-changing trauma that

would have broken most people.

But instead she refocused her life and used her experience

to create an educational framework for people who have faced challenges or diversity that

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