Transcript Managing Stress PowerPoint presentation

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
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A = Event
B = Resources
C = Meaning
X = Stress
Your Resources:
What tools do you have?
Helpful friends
Hobbies
Creativity
Religious faith
Personal journal
A family pet
Savings
Mentors 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
2. Are you willing to
people who have been
share an example from
refined by their
your own life story that
challenges, who
commemorates a
overcame them and
blessing you have
accomplished amazing
received as you have
things? What inspires
dealt with a challenge?
you about their stories?
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.