Resilience isn’t found—it’s built.
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We all face moments of adversity, trauma, and challenge. But what if those moments could become the very foundation of our strength? What if, instead of breaking us, they shaped us into someone more grounded, courageous, and resilient?
Journey With Rita is dedicated to informing, empowering, and inspiring women to rise through life’s challenges and cultivate lasting resilience. Through Rita’s own journey, she discovered seven guiding principles that helped her rebuild, realign, and rediscover purpose in the face of hardship.
Rita’s mission is to share these principles with you—because like a skill, resilience can be learned—and like a muscle, it can be trained and strengthened over time.
Our Promise
To Inform
Share guiding principles and pillars that help us rise stronger, stay grounded, and keep moving forward through life’s challenges
To Empower
Share simple yet powerful practices, daily habits, and lifestyle tools for each principle, to help us navigate life with strength, purpose, and confidence
To Inspire
Share inspiring stories from those who have walked this path before us—stories of courage, perseverance, and triumph—to remind us that resilience is possible for us all
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Why Resilience?
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), resilience is both a process and an outcome—the ability to successfully adapt to difficult or challenging life experiences through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility. In essence, resilience allows us to adjust to both external pressures and internal changes.
Becoming more resilient not only helps us navigate adversity, but also empowers us to grow and improve our lives along the way. Much like building muscle, strengthening resilience takes time, practice, and intentional effort. The APA identifies four core components—connection, wellness, healthy thinking, and meaning—as essential to developing the capacity to withstand and learn from life’s challenges.
At Journey With Rita, I’ve drawn from my own life experiences to identify seven guiding principles that have helped me build and sustain resilience: Mindset, Gratitude, Connection, Purpose, Habits, Surrender, and Reflection. These principles are meant to inform and inspire, offering practical ways to nurture your own growth and strength.
Please note that I am not a licensed psychologist, and the information shared here is for educational and inspirational purposes only.
While certain factors may make some individuals naturally more resilient, research shows that resilience is not a fixed trait—it’s a set of skills, behaviors, and attitudes that anyone can learn, develop, and strengthen over time. With awareness, support, and consistent practice, we can all cultivate the resilience needed to thrive through life’s inevitable challenges..