Coping With Crises

A crisis can strengthen or bind a family together but only if one knows how to cope or handle the crisis correctly. 

In order for one to properly cope or become stronger from a crisis one must believe in one self.  I crisis can attack your self esteem.  If you believe in yourself when I crisis arises it will help you be able to handle it and after the crisis your self-esteem may even strengthen because you were put through a hard time and made it through.

A crisis may result in self-absorption.   When you are self-absorbed it is hard to think of others outside of yourself.  When you are self-absorbed it is hard to think or help others who may be in need.  One thing you can do to help yourself not be self-absorbed, is to grief with others who may be experiencing the same thing as you.  Make the extra effort to balance both others and yourself.

When you are in a crisis it is easy to see what is in front of you.  It is easy to focus on the here and now.  This kind of thinking can get you in trouble.  One thing that is really helpful in crisis is to reframe or to look at the situation in a different perspective. 

Although crisis seems like a terrible word, it can bind families together!!!