The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • I always can begin again

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    After Thanksgiving, I lamented to Fayteen that I had planned to eat with moderation, but somehow I had indulged and indulged and indulged—and not just on Thanksgiving day, but also on several days after Thanksgiving. “I always tell myself that I’m never going to do that again,” I said. Fayteen smiled. “You won’t,” she said,…

  • A lesson relearned—Tell the truth!

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    I almost got myself in a jam this year. I told a little lie with good intentions when I thought I was protecting a friend from something unpleasant. However, as I already knew and I should have remembered before I opened my mouth, even telling a tiny lie can make life complicated. But, it seems…

  • Merry Christmas, Scrooge!

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    My family has gone every year—or almost every year—to see the Dallas Theater Center’s performance of “A Christmas Carol.” I remember fondly performances when my children, now adults, couldn’t sit still and were frightened by Charles Dickens’ ghosts. This year, however, I bought tickets for my husband, Jerry, and my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, but not…

  • A lesson relearned—Be kind

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    When I volunteered one night recently with children with special needs, I was pleased to see that one preschooler with autism was talking more. As I watched him, I saw that, like any small child, he wasn’t always on his best behavior. He sometimes acted out, shoving or hitting his older sister. However, I was…

  • A lesson relearned—keep laughing

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    When I am too busy and the traffic is annoying and I’m running late, I’ve found the best remedy always is laughter. I try to remember the reason for the holidays. This is not a season to be endured, but a season to be enjoyed. Sometimes, though, I have to remind myself to keep smiling.…

  • A lesson relearned—my interesting family

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    I recently had dinner with a good friend, and she spent a long time complaining about the relatives she planned to entertain during the holidays. I don’t know about you, but I could complain a bit about a relative or two. My family is not perfect, but it is the only family that I have.…

  • Express gratitude

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    In their book Supersurvivors—The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success, David Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz suggest relying on “grounded hope” instead of positive thinking. You have grounded hope if your hope is rooted in reality. You know that you can’t always control what happens to you. But, you believe that, whatever happens to you,…

  • Know what you can control

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    Grounded hope is hope rooted in reality. It’s the powerful belief that, whatever happens to you, you can make choices and control how you act and react. But, what if you have a tendency to want to control everything? That’s the question I asked David Feldman, who talked about his book Supersurvivors at the Texas…

  • Grounded hope

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    What’s wrong with positive thinking? In their book Supersurvivors, David Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz explain: The supporters of positive thinking get to have it their way no matter what. If people succeed at work, thrive in life or survive an illness, those supporters can say, “See! It was the positive thinking that did it.”…

  • Are you a supersurvivor?

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    A leukemia sufferer who won an Olympic gold medal. A blind man who rowed across the Atlantic. A woman who survived genocide in Rwanda. These are some of the the supersurvivors whose stories are discussed in David Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz’s book Supersurvivors—The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success. What do these people have…