This is a topic that I covered coming up to three years ago (which quite surprises me!) However, I have come to realise the drama that can play out in our minds in these crisis moments. What I have been reminded of recently is that when disaster strikes, we can be in a battle with the raw, painful emotions that tend to come in the straight aftermath and what we know to be true. We can know that things will be different in the future and will work themselves out in the end. However, that doesn’t necessarily stop the sometimes deep pain and disappointment when something hasn’t worked out the way you had thought.

There is probably an introverted and an extroverted way of handling these situations. So learning more about yourself can be the first step to knowing how you can get through future problems. Whatever your personality type, it can be balancing act between knowing when to allow yourself to acknowledge the hard feelings and just let them out and when to hear the honest, sometimes hard-hitting reality. As I talked about in the previous instalment on this topic, thinking about other positive realities can be helpful in these situations as well. Sometimes, you can’t see those realities on your own. So, it can be helpful to know who you can go to to help you with this as well as someone who can offer a good listening ear if you just need to vent.

But as I also said in the previous instalment of this, don’t blame yourself if you are not prepared. Life can throw unexpected things at you at any age and stage of your life that you’re not going to know the answer to. So – something that I need to remind myself of as well – we can take time just to see how you responded to a situation before putting a plan of action in place.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you find it helpful. As always, feel free to get in touch with any questions/feedback/comments – I always love to hear them. Stay tuned for the next instalment.

Until next time

K