Managing Stress: Turning Challenges into Blessings (PowerPoint)

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Stress
Managing
Turning Challenges into Blessings
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One Crisis After Another

• Storms
• War
• Economy

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Your ChallengesWhat have you faced?

• Do what you can, with what you have, where you
  are.
• - Theodore Roosevelt

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OLD IDEA

• A ? X
• A Event
• X Stress

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NEW IDEAReuben Hills Model of Stress

• ABC ? X
• A Event
• B Resources
• C Meaning
• X Stress

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Your Resources What tools do you have?

• Helpful friends
• Hobbies
• Creativity
• Religious faith
• Personal journal
• A family pet
• Savings
• Mentors or counselors

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Your MeaningHow do you make sense of challenges?

• Men are disturbed not by things, but the views
  which they take of them.
• - Epictetus

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We can turn lump of coal experiences into
diamonds by the way we think about them.

• Can you think of people who have been refined by
  their challenges, who overcame them and
  accomplished amazing things? What inspires you
  about their stories?

• Are you willing to share an example from your own
  life story that commemorates a blessing you have
  received as you have dealt with a challenge?

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ChallengesYour opportunity for growth?
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Challenges can help us draw closer to other
people, develop greater compassion, and learn to
value the simple things in life.
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Inspiring
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Your Story
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Challenges help us grow.