You’re invincible?? I thought I was too. Naive with Peter Pan syndrome, lived like I could die tomorrow! I didn’t protect myself. I could barely walk. Sometimes not at all.I lost everything. I was homeless. I was betrayed. I was heartbroken. I lived in fear, grief and unrelenting pain. I didn’t think I would ever paint again. The ones I believed loved me only judged. I became irrelevant despite giving everything I had for decades to everyone else. I couldn’t find the strength or the way. I felt very alone. It’s been the hardest period of my life. I reached a point where I questioned whether I could keep going at all or if I mattered. It felt like rock bottom collapsed and I fell even lower. Yet, I got up and kept moving forward. One brushstroke, one foot in front of the next. This is what resilience really is. Not strength. Not positivity. It is the decision to continue when nothing feels possible. Over time, resilience introduces grit. Welcome to the school of Grit - stay the cou...