1. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
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2. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
A life challenge can be stressful—
whether it’s due to illness, job loss,
financial worries, or the death of a
loved one or of a marriage.
Yes divorce is stressful.

3. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
1. Step up your self-care. Major changes are
physically and emotionally taxing. You
need self-care now more than ever.

4. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
2. Focus on what you want to see happen and less
on what you don’t want. “Flip your mental
switch” by looking at what’s right, instead of
what’s gone wrong, to help you manifest the
best outcome possible.

5. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
3. Seek the gifts within. Calm your fears and
reinforce your sense of hope and happiness by
keeping yourself open to “seeing the gifts
within” that can come about in even the
greatest of tragedies if open up to them.

6. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
4. Look for and accept support. Since your
situation may affect your family as well, it may
be better to look outside the normal support of
family or friends for skilled professionals and
support groups.

7. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
5. Take an honest look at yourself. What are
your strengths, weaknesses, skills? How
did those influence—positively or
negatively—your ability to overcome the
challenge? Who can best help you in areas
you are weakest?

8. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
6. Reassure (or avoid) those who are
threatened by, or not able to cope with, the
change. Surround yourself with people
who will lift you up, guide you, and
support you.

9. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
7. Engage your hindsight. What went
wrong, or right on the journey? What
could you have done differently? What
worked really well?

10. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
8. Let go of how things were “supposed to
be” and accept “how things are.” Find
appreciation for what is by adopting an
“attitude of gratitude.”

11. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
9. Create your own rite of passage as you
become the new you. Ceremony and ritual
help with all the changes and you get to
write the new script!

12. 10 Tips to Coping With Life’s Challenges
10. Keep things in perspective. Or try on a
new perspective. Don’t get stuck.
Remember, the only constant is change.

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