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Category Archives: Coping Skills & Resiliency
The More You Hang Out With Mom, The Longer She’ll Live…
Not quite a decade and a half ago, when my daughter was still a teenager, I promised her I’d live to be 97 years old. I no longer remember what prompted the conversation, but that age – 97 – has stuck … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, Loneliness
Tagged children, grandchildren, grandmother, grandparents, Loneliness, lonely, mom, mother, quality of life, Warrior Project
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The Gray Area of Being Suicidal
The following blog from The Mighty (https://themighty.com) describes the passive, habitual, long-term suicidality that too many people live with. The thoughts are always there, lurking in the background. If something negative happens, no matter how minor it is, the immediate … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, Grief, PTSD, Suicide
Tagged passive suicidality, Suicide, thoughts of suicide, Warrior Project
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Choices
I’m a member of several support groups on Facebook for those of us grieving the loss of a spouse, child, parent, or other loved one to suicide. Too many of the members question “Why? Why did s/he do it?” Some … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, Grief, PTSD, Suicide
Tagged alcoholism, chronic pain, Grief, grieving, Suicide, Warrior Project
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Saturday, Dec 31 – Living with Emotional and/or Physical Pain, PTSD and Hopelessness Support Group – at The Warrior Project
Support Group: Living with Emotional and/or Physical Pain and/or PTSD, Complicated by Hopelessness Tonight, from 6:00-7:30 pm. For those who are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired of their emotional, psychic and/or physical pain, and are feeling hopeless … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, PTSD, Support Groups
Tagged alcohol, chronic pain, coping skills, depression, discussing suicide, hiding depression, hiding pain, hopelessness, isolation, lethal, lethality, physical pain, resilience, resiliency, save a life, substance abuse, Suicide, suicide risk factors, support group, support understanding healing, the warrior project, troubled man, Warrior Project
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Surviving Successfully – Developing Healthy Habits
Surviving successfully – whether it’s our grief over the death of someone we love, or our own chronic pain and hopelessness – means taking good care of ourselves even when we don’t want to or when it doesn’t seem to … Continue reading
Resilience in the Face of Extreme Challenge
My life has not been easy. Over the past 60 years, there have been very few periods of time when I haven’t been faced with some kind of major adversity (or too often, several at once): a parent dying when … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency
Tagged american psychological association, APA, bounce back, perspective, recover, regroup, resilience
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Breathe
View post on imgur.com There have been too many moments in the past nearly three weeks when I have felt unable to breathe… and moments when it seemed all I was capable of was to breathe. **************** In memory of … Continue reading
How to Keep Working Productively When You’re Under Extreme Stress
https://www.fastcompany.com/3065300/work-smart/how-to-keep-working-productively-when-youre-under-extreme-stress Fast Company. November 07, 2016. 5 MINUTE READ – WORK SMART How To Keep Working Productively When You’re Under Extreme Stress You’ve got a big job with bigger responsibilities. Then disaster strikes. Here’s how to keep it together. [Photo: Chad … Continue reading
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