Stress: Managing Turning Challenges into Blessings.

Stress:Managing

Turning Challenges into Blessings

One Crisis After Another

• Storms

• War

• Economy

Your Challenges:What have you faced?

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

OLD IDEA:

A → X

• A = Event

• X = Stress

NEW IDEA:Reuben Hill’s

Model of Stress

ABC → X

• A = Event

• B = Resources

• C = Meaning

• X = Stress

Your Resources: What tools do you have?

Helpful friendsHobbiesCreativityReligious faithPersonal journalA family petSavingsMentors or counselors

Your Meaning:How do you make sense of

challenges?

“Men are disturbed not by things, but the views which they take of them.”

- Epictetus

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

about them.

1. 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?

2. 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?

Challenges:Your opportunity for growth?

Challenges can help us draw closer to other

people, develop greater compassion, and learn to value the simple things in

life.

Inspiring

Your Story

Challenges help us grow.