Haere mai! Welcome to the FIRST interview on Voices of Resilience Radio!I am honoured to introduce to you Ashley and her story of resilience. Ashley tells us about how resilience for her, when looking back, was all the things she disregarded – until recent years when she identified these as her strengths. Fijian Indian and New Zealand, Ashley shares how her journey of healing has involved choosing, building, and reclaiming her culture and beliefs – according to her preferences. She shares several resilience factors she’s used, without even realising it, throughout her healing journey including creativity, community, culture, dance, music, education, and putting her foot down! We talk a little about posttraumatic growth.Listen now...and prepare to be inspired and even (hopefully!) experience some of the ‘goosebump’ moments we have in this sacred kōrero (talk).In this episode I discuss the following studies, in case you would like to read them:We discuss silence as forms of resilience:Singh, Hays, Chung, & Watson (2010). South Asian Immigrant Women Who Have Survived Child Sexual Abuse: Resilience and Healing, Violence Against Women, 16(4), 444-458.Resilience definition:van Breda (2018). A critical review of resilience theory and its relevance for social work, Social Work, 54(1).Resilience and posttraumatic growth may occur concurrently as the 'wounded becomes the healer' (p.8) as resilience processes may support people to also find meaning along their healing journey after experiencing trauma:Walker-Williams, H. J. & Fouché, A. (2018). Resilience enabling processes and posttraumatic growth outcomes in a group of women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Health SA Gesondheid (Online), 23, 1–9.