Recent events have turned our backbones of steel to withering shoulders and emptied us of resilience

When it matters most, under pressure and in high stress, I can focus on the situation at hand and immediately dive into solution mode. This is regardless of whether it is in the face of death and tragedy or a high-stress work environment.

I joked with my therapist recently that my tagline is nothing but the cliched: "I make lemonade from the lemons life constantly throws at me". For years and years, I have constantly made lemonade. For my colleagues and friends, I am not the person to vent to or to rant with. I am the fixer. The solution finder. The lemonade maker. But to keep up the metaphor, the lemons that life throws at me seem too much to handle.

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