Resilience Toolkit: how to grieve an old life and start rebuilding a new one | Becca Wong | TEDxUofM

What is true resilience? If both suffering and joy are inherent parts of the human experience, what does it mean to live with both? In this talk, Becca Wong draws upon her own lived experience and her research, exploring what it looks like to hold conflicting and unexpected emotions at once after grieving a life you didn't imagine yourself outside of. Explore new perspectives of what it means to find meaning in your healing rather than meaning in your pain as you learn how to write your own story and take back control of the narrative. Becca Wong is a senior at the University of Michigan studying sociology, social work, and quantitative methods in social sciences. She focuses on gender-based violence and is researching the intersection of social identity, perceptions of justice, and decision-making after sexual assault experiences. When she spoke out against a Christian organization that removed her for reporting a sexual assault, she became a part of a federal investigation against the organization’s race and sex based discrimination and has since helped pioneer the #MeTooYoungLife movement to bring attention to Young Life’s fallible behaviors and policies. In her talk, she draws upon both her research and lived experience to discuss the unexpected consequences of trauma beyond the binary of the despair-shutdown stereotype. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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