#personal-resilience

#personal-resilience

Tourette Syndrome is a neurological condition that causes a person to make involuntary movements or sounds. I've had tics since I was a child that have included throat-clearing, making noises, repeating words, blinking, winking, flexing my jaw or fingers, repetitive clicking and gasping for air. These tics were at their worst in my late teens, and then fluctuated between manageable and unmanageable in my early twenties.

At first, it was just something fun ... a way to celebrate her and share her joy with others. To have her on the cover of Modern Dog magazine would be something that I would cherish forever. However, the competition took on a deeper purpose once she learned that donation votes support the nonprofit Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), a group helping animals find homes and thrive.

What research actually shows is that emotional regulation is a skill - one that's forged, not gifted. A landmark study published in Emotion Review found that the ability to manage emotional responses depends heavily on practiced cognitive strategies like reappraisal and attentional deployment. In other words, the people who seem unbothered have usually trained themselves to reframe what's happening before the emotional cascade even starts.

Today marks 343 days since Shamrock Rovers were a matter of minutes away from a fifth successive Premier Division title, only for Shelbourne to snatch it out of their hands courtesy of Harry Wood's famous late winner. As Shels rejoiced, for Rovers, a historic five-in-a-row wasn't to be but they used that heartbreak to fuel their 2025 target of taking the title from Tolka Park and back over the Liffey to Tallaght Stadium.

For Quiroz - whose resume of life experiences include being a teenage mom, living through San Jose's 2017 Coyote Creek flooding debacle and battling Stage 2 breast cancer - creating art is therapeutic.

"I didn't trust the system. I thought they were trying to trap me," he said, explaining that he turned around and walked back to the train station as soon as he saw the words immigration centre above the door of the building.