: William Carter
: People Who Thrive Overcoming Hardship and Finding Meaning
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: 9781543948554
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: Lebensführung, Persönliche Entwicklung
: English
: 148
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Though all people experience varied types and degrees of adversity, an ingrained belief across cultures is that life is meant to be meaningful. When hardship strikes, people search for ways to respond, rebuild, prevail. If it is true that life is meaningful, then hardship, adversity, trauma, grief, wounds, and emotional pain are roadblocks to that end goal. Not insurmountable barriers, but obstacles that can be overcome. Thriving-overcoming hardship-is a learned experience. People who thrive are intentional. They purposely get to know themselves, build support systems, make effective use of emotions, live within hope, and know what it means to love. Finding meaning, thriving is, in some ways, cloaked in mystery. If people can thrive, indeed are meant to thrive, there must be a pathway to that endpoint. People Who Thrive provides a research-based model for successfully coping with life's struggles, and simultaneously teaches thinking, communication, and relationship skills to make people vibrant. Life is meant to be meaningful in spite of hardship.

[Introduction]

LIFE CAN BE HARD

Hardship comes in many shapes and sizes. Tough times strike everyone.Everyone. Sometimes it seems that no one understands what it must be like to walk a mile in your shoes. All people struggle to understand hardship, but none of us escapes it. Some give in to it; they collapse. Others fight and hope that someday they will find satisfying responses to unsatisfying circumstances. Some people thrive in spite of hardship. They are not lucky or smart or blessed or anything you and I are not. They work to overcome their circumstances. Truth be told, all people trudge through situations not of their making or choosing:account

  • Family problems—divorce, an absent loved one, constant arguing.
  • Emotional abuse or physical abuse, harsh communication.
  • Problems with parents or siblings or children.
  • Unwanted sexual experiences.
  • Bullying by peers, a boss, or even by someone in your family.
  • Moving to a new neighborhood, town, or state.
  • The death of someone you love.
  • Exposure to people who abuse alcohol or drugs.
  • A lack of close relationships.
  • Physical, emotional disabilities.
  • Financial problems.
  • Work problems, failure, no place of belonging.

People handle hardshipdifferently.

Somefight.

Some givein.

Somefreeze.

Somewithdraw.

Some actout.

Some runaway.

Some turn onthemselves.

Some turn onothers.

BUT… Some survive…some bounce back…some become leaders…some remake themselves…some do well, reallywell.

Some peoplethrive.

  • Two Examples:

    Alexis grew up in a tough world. He never knew his real father, and as a kid didn’t like his mother’s choice of boyfriends. An uncle occasionally took him to ball games or to the park, but he was unreliable. At times Alexis’s mother worked and paid the bills. At other times she was unemployed, and money was scarce. It embarrassed Alexis to admit to his friends that his family relied on food stamps. As a teen, he did well in school, played sports, and his teachers liked him. Things changed, however, when he moved into adulthood. He gravitated toward the wrong crowd, abused drugs, and couldn’t keep a steady job. When his girlfriend told him she might be pregnant, he got scared and left. His reputation plummeted, and so did his conduct. By the time he was 30 years old, Alexis had already been to jail twice, once for theft and onc