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Six Steps to Build your Self Esteem and Confidence

Many of us are struggling, and many of us are facing challenges. They may be physical, mental or emotional. Maybe you have suffered some kind of loss in your life, your health, a job or maybe friendships. This can have an impact on your self-esteem and confidence which you need in order to heal, improve and enjoy a better quality of life. Confidence and self-esteem make a tremendous difference in your life and the lives of those around you. I have provided some tips that I have found to be helpful to me on building self-esteem and confidence while you are struggling, and I would like to share them with you. [Read more...]

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Surviving Chronic Illness Through Commitment

In my latest post, I shared the importance of having hope when surviving chronic illness. You can read about that here. The seventh quality that is crucial when surviving trauma is commitment. Staying committed to your loved ones is a critical component when dealing and healing through traumatic situations. You need to be committed to stick out the fight for recovery with your loved ones. Commitment helps families get through the toughest of times. [Read more...]

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Surviving Chronic Illness Through Hope

In a previous blog entry, I discussed the meaning of acceptance. If you’re interested you can learn more about surviving trauma through acceptance here. The sixth quality one must consider when surviving a difficult trauma is hope. If you are left with nothing else, you must then hold on to hope. While I still lingered in my darkest days, I held firmly to hope. It is what kept me moving forward. Maintaining your hopes and dreams during times of trials and tribulations is a vital part of conquering them.
What does hope mean to the person that is living with a chronic illness? [Read more...]

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SURVIVING CHRONIC ILLNESS THROUGH COURAGE

I want to share with you a third quality that is very important to have when surviving trauma-Courage. Surviving trauma through courage is a quality that has gotten me through the toughest of times! Everyone possesses courage. Courage can be developed through adversity. I’ve always said it’s not what you go through that makes you the person you are, it’s how you react to the situation that you’re dealt with that makes you the person you are! Courage and Strength go hand in hand. You can read about the quality of strength here in my previous post. [Read more...]

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SURVIVING CHRONIC ILLNESS THROUGH STRENGTH

I have pondered the question, what are the qualities one needs while living with a chronic illness. There are seven qualities that I can think of that have helped me to overcome the struggles I face. One of the qualities, resilience, I have posted about previously. You can read it here. Today I want to share another one of those qualities, strength. [Read more...]

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When Going Through Challenges You Can Learn Positive Lessons!

It’s important to see your challenges as lessons you can learn and grow from. Instead of looking at your life challenge as a negative begin to look for the positives in it. As hard as it may be to do that, you will grow leaps and bounds and you will begin to have an empowered belief that you will overcome your life struggle! [Read more...]

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CREATE YOUR OWN SUPPORT SYSTEM

If you’re struggling with any kind of challenge, be it physical, mental or emotional; or if you’ve recently suffered a loss of some kind, you can certainly benefit from building your own support system. Many environments offer support systems; however, if you find yourself without a job or out of school because of what you’ve been going through, finding the support you need is a challenge in itself. Nevertheless, in order to improve, heal, or enjoy a better quality of life, a solid support system is a must.

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What is Empathy?

As stated in thefreedictionary.com, Empathy is: “Identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings, and motives.” Being empathetic towards others is so critical especially when they are going through a hardship. Being able to see through another person’s perspective and understand what the person is going through is a gift. When we are able to do that, we can see how they feel. Putting yourself in another’s situation is a conscious decision people can learn to do. [Read more...]

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