The Resolute Woman

Category: stress

  • The effort to be normal

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    One of the important lessons that Harold Fry learns is that he’s not the only one with problems, that he has much in common with the people he meets. In The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce writes, “People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A quiet day! An Old Year’s Resolution

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    I love the holiday season. I love going to see the Dallas Theater Center’s production of “A Christmas Carol” every year. I love parties with my friends and attending the Christmas Eve service at my church with my family. However, sometimes, often, the holiday season can be too overwhelming, too frantic, too busy. I am…

  • Fear is okay

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    Alison Levine, author of On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership, was on the south summit of Mount Everest. She was so high that she had to take five to 10 breaths before each step when she realized that she and her team were in extreme danger. Levine’s oxygen tank had malfunctioned, and a…

  • Lead yourself

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    To be a leader, you first have to lead yourself. That was the interesting conclusion from a leadership workshop that I attended at the National Girl Scout convention last month. The workshop leaders talked about your “inside” self and your “outside” self—and also your social self and your essential/authentic self. You can be a powerful…

  • What’s normal?

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    Sometimes, we need to stop for a few minutes and consider what we’re doing—what has become normal in our lives. That was one of the lessons I learned at the National Girl Scout convention last month in Salt Lake City. The leaders at a workshop about leadership quoted Ellen DeGeneres, the comedian. “Normal is getting…

  • How anger can be light

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    Arun Gandhi was 12 years old when he and his family visited his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi. Arum struggled to be a Gandhi, to live up to his famous grandfather’s name and reputation. “Peace and stillness did not come easily to me,” he remembers. One day, when another boy shoved him during a soccer game, Arun…