Dr. Tara Narula

And so resilience is really about finding your way to that space where despite what happens to you in life, you can still call and glean and take everything amazing from your experience in life and not let life take over you.

And I obviously have so many examples of resilience that I've seen

in my life as a doctor, as a journalist, as a friend.

I think about often a friend of mine actually from college.

We met Stanford our intern year.

She's from Massachusetts and she was single.

She wanted to have a child for many years and she finally went through IVF.

She got pregnant and about three months into her pregnancy, she called me and told me she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

So if you can imagine waiting and pushing and struggling so hard to have a baby, finding out during your pregnancy, you have ovarian cancer.

And it was one of those moments where, I mean, she had a choice, right?

Where do you go at this unimaginable moment?

And she was resilience personified.

She finished her pregnancy.

She delivered her beautiful baby.

She lived those last two years that she was alive with her daughter full.

And she wrote about her journey.

She was present for her daughter.

She made plans for what would happen for after she passed.

It was this incredible, beautiful story, my friend Kaz, as we called her, of resilience despite the literally unimaginable happening.

And so that's what I want for people