A great lady overcoming a nightmare

:   Build Resilience and Overcome Challenges

Adversity, personal injury, grief and loss can make you feel as though you have lost touch with yourself, but the truth is that adversity introduces us to our real selves. When you survive something traumatic or difficult, you have the opportunity to increase your personal power and inner strength. You’re strong and brave and amazing, or you wouldn’t have made it this far. Surviving takes courage, intelligence, and personal power. Resilience is going beyond survival; it’s the ability to get back up when you get knocked down, bounce back, adapt, and roll with the punches. You can build your resilience.Here are some strategies you can use to build resilience and personal power:

Bio

Marti MacGibbon, CADC-II, ACRPS, CAPMS, is a member of the National Speakers Association, an inspirational speaker, standup comic, certified addiction treatment professional, and author of the nationally award winning memoir, Never Give in to Fear: Laughing All the Way Up from Rock Bottom.Marti is an internationally known author and an expert on trauma resolutionand addiction. She holds five professional certifications in her specialized field, including the ACRPS, (Advanced Certified Relapse Prevention Specialist, and the CAPMS (Certified Addiction-Free Pain Management Specialist).

Few speakers have a personal comeback story as riveting and inspirational as Marti’s. She has recovered from and triumphed over nightmare experiences such as being trafficked to Tokyo and held prisoner by Japanese organized crime, homelessness, domestic violence,post-traumatic stress disorder and hard-core drug addiction. Marti employed simple, effective strategies to transform her life, and shares them to motivate, encourage, and energize audiences.