Several years ago I was at a conference of healthcare and wellness professionals. One of the people taught a brief yoga class and used the phrase, “With every wobble we grow stronger.” At the moment I really appreciated the phrase because I was quite wobbly and feeling self conscious, but I wondered how the rest of my colleagues perceived it. Could it mean more than wobbly in the physical sense?

In terms of your life and your experiences, does this phrase resonate with you? Do your wobbles make you stronger? Does it feel more like toxic positivity to you? Maybe it feels dismissive of your struggles. Are there times when this phrase works for you and times when you know it would only frustrate you? Take a moment to reflect on a time when you wobbled and what you experienced next.