Excerpts: Sandberg recounts grief and building resilience
Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy, chronicles her grief and road to recovery and resilience.
[...] Sandberg is a firm believer in pre-traumatic growth — that is, people's ability to build up resilience before something bad happens so that they are able to cope with it better.
What we don't see coming — or at least I didn't — is that trauma can also lead to self-doubt in all aspects of our lives.
To try to make ends meet, many have more than one job — not including the job of being a mother.
'Why are you home? he asked.
"[...] where is Dad?" We all sat down on the couch with my parents and my sister.
With my father's strong arm around my shoulder, trying to protect me as he always has, I found the courage to speak: 'I have terrible news.
The screaming and crying that followed haunt me to this day — primal screams and cries that echoed the ones in my heart.
When it's safe to talk about mistakes, people are more likely to report errors and less likely to make them.