This Week in Recovery Lesson
Effective Problem-Solving & Conflict Resolution
When troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. James 1:2
Please respond to the following questions:
- How do you manage anxiety and stress? What do you do, specifically?
- How do you manage disappointment and pain? Again, what do you do, specifically?
- What have you done to confront problems in your life? What do you tend to do?
- Provide an example of how you have given into negativity while ignoring positives in circumstances and relationships and how that affected you.
- Provide an example of how you have predicted scenarios—imagined the worst—about how something will turn out prior to addressing the situation and how that affected you.
- Provide an example of how you have drawn wrong conclusions about a particular situation and how that affected you.
The truth is that so much of what you imagine to be true, from wounded memories of past experiences, isn’t necessarily realized in your present circumstance, yet you can experience tumultuous stress worrying about it. Also true, is that you have confronted problems ill equipped to solve them, and the worst that you imagined concluded to be spot on or even worse than what you had imagined. As it happens that you fail miserably in your attempts to solve problems, the likelihood increases that the fear of failure and rejection results in shying away from problem-solving and the problem gets worse while you stew over it and resist trying to solve it. Problem solving can be extremely daunting and difficult so you need a plan of action to attempt to solve problems.
Now click on TWRAC 019 to develop an action plan for problem solving and conflict resolution.
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