Recently my client, Christine, called for an emergency session. Her business was in danger of going under and she couldn't think straight. The mind monkeys, those fearful and critical thoughts that can chatter incessantly in [...]
In my last blog, “How to Avoid Going From Bad To Worse in a Crisis” I called out four actions that can make your current crisis even more dire than it already is. Now here [...]
“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.” Randy Pausch But, as Randy, author of the book“The Last Lecture,” also pointed out, “at the same time, it is often within your [...]
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” ― Rumi What? My crisis has an upside ?? What kind of do-gooder, Pollyanna optimism is that? Don't get me wrong. Every single crisis I [...]
Oh I believe there are angels among us. Sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours. To show us how to live, to teach us [...]
You’ve just been gob-smacked and your world is spinning. You can’t think clearly, want to throw up, are looking for a place to hide or trying to wake up the nightmare that your world has [...]
When you’ve been dumped unceremoniously into a crisis, it’s much like being thrown unexpectedly into an ocean. You sink for at least a few minutes into those dark, briny waters, disoriented and confused. Then, some [...]
Support systems, necessary to our survival in normal situations, become essential during times of crisis. Most simply, when our world falls apart because of a job loss, divorce, life-threatening illness or other seismic events, we [...]
For some people, the automatic reaction to a bone-jarring shock or fearsome event is to retreat or hunker down alone. While that is a very normal initial response, research supports that isolation during a crisis, [...]
