What happens when you have a crisis

As I said before, no matter what your turning point was: loss of job, death of loved one, etc., the big constant is CHANGE. Your life changed in a way that was out of your control.

Change in your life, even good change, usually means you lost something else. Sometimes you gain in a change, like a new job, or a new life, but frequently the first part of the change is negative.

Perhaps the whole thing that happened to you is negative. You lost someone or something you loved, you needed, you counted on. You lost part of yourself in that loss. You know this already. It's glaringly clear you lost a huge part of your life, and you feel like there's a gaping hole inside you.

You see other people walking around, and it looks like their lives might be so easy. How do they do it? Well, of course, their lives are not always easy, any more than yours. But we're going to talk about ways to help you manage what's going on in your life. Readers, please write in with ways that work for you.