Sunday, May 3, 2009

Definition of a crisis

Here you are, flapping around with all your rubber bands broken and your hair is in flames. The fire extinguisher is miles away behind safety glass.

Sound anything like your life? With the economy, many of us who were close to the edge of their limits financially have fallen far over into the Grand Canyon.

No matter what the specifics are, I can tell you one terrible thing that's true for you, no matter what your crisis:

Something happened to you that was
  1. Out of your control, and that
  2. You did not want.

What qualifies as a crisis?

  • A job loss
  • The death of a loved one
  • Return from military service and Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Divorce
  • If you're looking at this, you already know

You've lost control over an important part of your life, and now you're at a turning point, faced with choices you did not want to make. Your life has changed dramatically, and you have to re-define who you are in a different world you may not like.

I'm writing this because I have gone through my share of trauma and crisis, of course. I'm going through some struggles of my own all the time, including how to live a normal life with a brain tumor. There's a conversation stopper!

I say that only to give you give some credibility to my words. This isn't pie in the sky. This is down in the trenches, slogging through the mud.

You can get through your crisis. You are in a process. And you are not alone.

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