How I found resilience as my life fell apart | Jane Marie Chen

Jane Marie Chen's TED Talk explores resilience through her personal journey of founding and ultimately shutting down Embrace, a social enterprise focused on providing low-cost incubators for premature babies. Chen recounts how her childhood experiences of seeking validation through achievement led her to overwork and burnout. After the company's closure, she embarked on a healing journey, confronting past traumas and learning to disconnect her self-worth from external achievements. Chen emphasizes the importance of emotional acceptance, detaching from outcomes, and practicing self-compassion, illustrated by her experiences with meditation, psychedelic journeys, and acknowledging the "little girl" within herself. She concludes that true resilience lies in self-love and tenderness, which ultimately reshaped her relationships and allowed her to appreciate Embrace's impact on over a million babies after it was saved.