Unbreakable: The Strength That Shows Up When You Want to Give Up

Your lowest point might just uncover your highest capacity.

By Elizabeth Meigs | Founder of Elizabeth Inspires™, Creator of the Roadmap to Resilience™ & the Pathway to PEACE™ Method

I’ve noticed something across my coaching work and in my own life—strength doesn’t often show up with warning or welcome. It arrives when everything else has fallen away.

It doesn’t feel like strength at first.
It feels like survival.
Like breathlessness.
Like standing in the ashes of what once was, wondering what remains.

But in these moments—when quitting feels easier, when retreat feels safer—there’s a quiet shift. Not a roar. A whisper.

“You don’t have a choice. But you still have power.”

And that realization becomes the beginning of something sacred: resilience that wasn’t chosen but discovered.

Why is it that our greatest strength is often revealed through crisis, not comfort?

Because comfort doesn’t call for excavation.
Crisis does.

I’ve worked with men and women navigating divorce, health scares, deep burnout, or the aftermath of trauma. And nearly every time, they said the same thing: “I didn’t know I was this strong.”

That’s the truth: we confuse strength with steadiness.
We think strong means unshaken.
But real strength is rising after the shaking.
It’s rebuilding when the blueprints are gone.

And often, the only way we uncover that strength is by being forced to dig—beneath the fear, beneath the exhaustion, into the core of who we were always meant to be.

Resilience Isn’t About Perfection—It’s About Becoming

We live in a culture that idolizes ease and hides the becoming process.

But I want you to know:
If you're trembling, you’re not weak.
If you’re tired, you’re not failing.
You’re becoming.

The pressure isn’t breaking you.
It’s pressing out everything that no longer belongs.
And the version of you that emerges on the other side will carry a depth you didn’t have before.

You may not have asked for this battle—but you are being forged in it.
Not just to survive, but to rise stronger, clearer, and more anchored than ever.

Reclaim the Strength That’s Already in You

Here’s what I want you to take with you today:

✅ You’ve already survived 100% of your hardest days.
✅ Your strength is not in question—it’s in progress.
✅ You were not created to break, but to rebuild.
✅ You are not here by accident—and you will not be undone by this moment.

💡 If strength is your only choice right now, I want you to choose it with power. Not because you feel ready—but because you are equipped.

And if you need a tool to help you steady your mindset, I created one for this exact moment.
🧭 Download my free The 30 Second Secret to Unlock your Person Peace & Reclaim your Power under the Resources tab. It’s the same strategy I leaned on when everything felt like too much.

📌 Keep it in your phone. Tape it to your mirror. Whisper it to yourself when the fear gets loud.
Because sometimes the smallest tool in your hand can unlock the greatest strength in your spirit.

You are not breaking. You are becoming.
And what are you becoming?
Unshakable.
Unstoppable.
Unbreakable.