A dozen years ago, when the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies convened a panel to discuss resilience, the panelists agreed that the construct was “complex” but came up with a number of human-friendly definitions. In the intervening years, however, the word “resilience” has increasingly been co-opted and weaponized as a globalist buzzword.

Now is a good time to reclaim the basic concept of resilience for ourselves. The definition quoted at the top of this post—“an active decision to keep moving forward”—is similar to Catherine’s definition of “turtling,” which involves moving forward steadily, taking action, never stopping, and recognizing that small steps add up.

In this “rock and roll” year marked by inflation, conflict, and growing threats to supply chains and food security, we encourage you to “turtle” and build greater household resilience in whatever areas you can—whether by shoring up your ability to withstand food and energy shocks or by building and strengthening relationships with high-integrity people and businesses in your neighborhood and community.

On the latter point, Solari Connect can help you find like-minded individuals in your area with whom you may wish to form a Solari Circle. Reinette Senum also recently provided an excellent overview of time banking, a mechanism to restore old-fashioned “kindness and neighborly deeds,” operating on the premise that “every human being has something to contribute.”

Below, we list some in-house and external resources to get you started—and we invite subscribers to post additional suggestions in the comments below.