I have a question for the group. How does one cope with stress in a healthy manner when we weren't taught by a healthy role model or didn't have healthy role models growing up?

Emotions ≠ Drivers of Behavior If emotions themselves caused behavior, then: • Every person experiencing anger would lash out. • Every person experiencing sadness would cry. • Every person experiencing anxiety would freeze. Our own thoughts CREATE emotions THEN, how we decide to think ALSO creates our behavior.

“Overwhelming” is yet another way of catastrophizing an experience. These days, every non-preferred event gets labeled “OVERWHELMING”. Remember, “overwhelming” refers to something that can kill us. Tornadoes, earthquakes, Tsunamis etc may, in fact, be overwhelming for this reason: They can be deadly. Overwhelmed is a cognition; a thought process NOT A FEELING. THINKING you are “overwhelmed” creates the FEELING/EMOTION of nervousness, anxiety, or panic. Something being nonpreferred or difficult or tiring does not equate to being overwhelming. Catastrophizing the hard things in life activates our limbic system but only because we have assessed them as being more threatening than they actually are. Our own words program our reality. Be careful how YOU are programming yours this weekend.

So many time a kind encouragement can lift somebody up. So always be kind. Please allow the spirit to use your kindness to help others. God Bless have a great day!!

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