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How to turn adversity to your advantage.

Resilience
Turn Your Hard Time Into a Story That Transforms Your Life

Deborah Khoshaba Psy.D. on March 5, 2012

You have a story viewpoint from which you talk about the things that happen to you. It can show you as resilient and keep you evolving, or keep you stuck in the past and doomed to repeat the same mistakes repeatedly.Hardiness leads to resilient actions that open up new story lines that fulfill and keep you growing.

You have a story viewpoint from which you talk about the things that happen to you. It can show you as resilient and keep you evolving, or keep you stuck in the past and doomed to repeat the same mistakes repeatedly.Hardiness leads to resilient actions that open up new story lines that fulfill and keep you growing.

Resilience
Keep the Faith: A Response to Eight Keys to Life Hardiness and Resilience

Deborah Khoshaba Psy.D. on March 5, 2012

Be extraordinary; exercise good faith in all that you do. Good faith gives you the power to find meaning in the things that happen to you that helps you to grow, deepens self-knowledge, and opens up new possibilities for living.

Be extraordinary; exercise good faith in all that you do. Good faith gives you the power to find meaning in the things that happen to you that helps you to grow, deepens self-knowledge, and opens up new possibilities for living.

Suicide
The Edge of Suicide

Deborah Khoshaba Psy.D. on March 5, 2012

The comprehensive breakdown in meaning of suicidal people narrows their perspective and understanding, so that they cannot see a way out of their problems.

The comprehensive breakdown in meaning of suicidal people narrows their perspective and understanding, so that they cannot see a way out of their problems.

Stress
Women Who Do Too Much

Deborah Khoshaba Psy.D. on January 5, 2012

If you are a woman who does too much, this article's for you. There's a great coping process outlined here that will help women and men to effectively cope with life's stressors.

If you are a woman who does too much, this article's for you. There's a great coping process outlined here that will help women and men to effectively cope with life's stressors.