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Life coach Gisela Gilges on resilience: “It is not about feeling no pain, but not staying where life struck you”

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Life coach Gisela Gilges said resilience does not mean avoiding pain, but having resources to recover from a crisis.
  • She identified five resources: social support, emotional regulation, clear thinking, economic autonomy and a sense of future.
  • Gilges argued that people can become overwhelmed not only by what happens, but also by the resources available to them during the crisis.

“It is not about feeling no pain, but having resources so you do not stay living in the place where life struck you,” life coach Gisela Gilges said while explaining her view of resilience.

In a video posted on Instagram, Gilges compared a crisis to descending a snowy mountain. The mountain, snow and slope remain the same, she said, but one person may have skis, poles, goggles, a helmet, warm clothing and an instructor, while another faces the descent alone with little preparation. Willpower alone, in her telling, does not provide the same protection.

It is not about feeling no pain, but having resources so you do not stay living in the place where life struck you.

· Gisela GilgesGilges defined resilience as recovery supported by internal and external resources.

Gilges described five resources that can shape how someone moves through a crisis. The first is social support, which does not mean having many friends. It means having at least one real person to call when life hurts. The second is emotional capacity: the ability to feel without becoming completely controlled by those feelings.

Many people are not destroyed by what they feel; they are destroyed because they do not know what to do with what they feel.

· Gisela GilgesShe explained the role of emotional resources during a crisis.

The third is intellectual capacity, or the ability to think clearly during difficult moments. Gilges cautioned that a mind in crisis is not always the best place to make decisions. She also included economic resources, which she defined not as great wealth but as having enough personal money and autonomy to avoid total dependence on someone else.

The final resource is a sense of the future: a direction, hope, project or reason to keep moving. Gilges said resilience depends on building these concrete supports, not simply on being strong. “People do not sink only because of what happens. They sink because of how many resources they have, or do not have, to get through the chaos,” she concluded.

People do not sink only because of what happens. They sink because of how many resources they have, or do not have, to get through the chaos.

· Gisela GilgesGilges concluded her explanation of the five resources.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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