How do some people sail through adversity (o.k. no one really does, but some move through it more gracefully) while others get caught up in despair, negativity and drama? The key is resilience – a set of characteristics that can be strengthened to help us cope with the icky stuff. Research shows that those who [...]
Are you a worry wart? Do you spend time wishing and worrying over things that haven’t even happened yet? Preparing for the worst? Ruminating about what might come to pass? Give it up. Instead, accept that there will be trying times and leave the worry behind. The worst is going to come, people. If you [...]
I’m often struck by how great a gift it is to be able to laugh at ourselves and the predicaments we find ourselves in. I realize that this isn’t always possible. Sometimes when we’re most in need of humor, it sits outside the perimeter of what we can reach, which—in a sort of cruel way—can [...]
Several years ago a wise friend of mine and former Buddhist monk explained that challenges – or things that we have a hard time dealing with – are simply things we are less skilled at. In other words: certain situations feel hard, not because they are bad or wrong, but simply because we haven’t practiced [...]
I’m pretty good at handling rejection. And like most of you, I’ve had a ton of practice. When you are a freelance writer, particularly in the early days, you spend a lot of time fielding no’s. When you’re a parent, you get good at looking failure in the eye. Heck, when you’re, well, a human [...]
When things go haywire and life takes a scary, irritating, messy turn – how do you talk about it? Do you dwell on the drama and despair? Or do you tell a story about how you can figure it out and thrive? What is the story you tell? When we’re caught up in what feels [...]
Change and uncertainty are major stresses for most of us, and two things we’re bound to experience plenty of in this life. So, stop getting all freaked out when the unexpected occurs and shift your focus to managing the uncertainty and thriving despite it. Come on now, you can do this. Start by changing how [...]
Each week I make a to-do list with a naive certainty that everything will come to pass. I act like nothing else will come into my life at exactly 8:30 when it’s time to write the blog post, or that my husband will always walk in at 4:15, or that I’ll find just what I [...]
I just finished writing a book. It took two months to finish the first draft, but really, I’ve been working on this for a lifetime. In the second grade I realized that I was a writer who would one day write a book or a bunch of them. It wasn’t a decision. It was a [...]
Saturday, I was back in corner room, the one with the computer cursor blinking and the desk piled with three-week old newspapers and bill statements and books and my calendar book with dates already filled in for November. I was in the office, where I’ve been every weekend for nearly two months. Working on my [...]
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