Tough Transitions
Navigating Your Way Through Difficult Times
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
In her highly acclaimed previous work Seven Choices, Dr. Neeld helped thousands deal with mourning and loss. Now, with Tough Transitions, she teaches us how to take on challenges of all kinds . . . and offers a new path that leads to happiness and growth.
Life is constantly handing us opportunities, challenges, and changes: a new baby, retirement, a new job, new stepchildren or in-laws, a move to a new community.
Using a life-map created exclusively for this book that, at a glance, shows the unfamiliar territory ahead, she guides us through the four R's, the nuances of every transition: Responding, Reviewing, Reorganizing, and Renewing.
Then, blending the latest scientific research, real-life stories, and the wisdom of many traditions, she reveals what experiences you're likely to encounter and what positive actions you can take to move forward.
Discover:
What issues you're likely to face with different kinds of change How your body, mind, and emotions are affected by transition New thinking and new behaviors that can transform your life The difference between surviving and thriving -- and the secrets that will make you a thriver.
Facing the unknown can be scary. But Tough Transitions comforts and inspires-and illuminates the path ahead.
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Neeld, a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and a former professor at Texas A&M, offers useful guidance on handling difficult life passages, like divorce, illness and the death of a parent or spouse. She also includes transitions that blend joy and challenge, such as retirement, the birth of a child or a desired career change. Her program is well thought out, incorporating four steps responding, reviewing, renewing and reorganizing illustrated by inspiring personal testimonies (including her own). For instance, in responding, which means handling emotional swings, the author recommends, among other things, slowing down and seeking the help of a professional. After emotions have subsided, it's time to review by exploring hopeful possibilities, and reorganizing means beginning to find a new sense of purpose. This stage flows directly into renewing, a period of new creativity and celebrating a stronger self. Throughout each stage, Neeld (Seven Choices: Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World) strongly advocates listening to music as an escape, an aid to meditation or simply a soothing activity (she even recommends specific works for particular needs). Neeld's wise advice will help many through life's inevitable transitions.
