Stress Managing Turning Challenges into Blessings One Crisis

Stress: Managing Turning Challenges into Blessings

One Crisis After Another • Storms • War • Economy

Your Challenges: What have you faced? “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ” - Theodore Roosevelt

OLD IDEA: A→X • A = Event • X = Stress

NEW IDEA: Reuben Hill’s Model of Stress ABC → X • • A = Event B = Resources C = Meaning X = Stress

Your Resources: What tools do you have? q Helpful friends q Hobbies q Creativity q Religious faith q Personal journal q A family pet q Savings q Mentors or counselors

Your Meaning: How do you make sense of challenges? “Men are disturbed not by things, but the views which they take of them. ” - Epictetus

We can turn lump of coal experiences into diamonds by the way we think about them. 1. Can you think of 2. Are you willing to people who have been share an example from refined by their your own life story that challenges, who commemorates a overcame them and blessing you have accomplished amazing received as you have things? What inspires dealt with a challenge? you about their stories?

Challenges: Your opportunity for growth?

Challenges can help us draw closer to other people, develop greater compassion, and learn to value the simple things in life.

Inspiring

Your Story

Challenges help us grow.