Crises

This past week has been the hardest for me. It's not that what we were learning was hard stuff, it's just that it's hard stuff to think about. We learned about crises that come up in family life and in your marriage. We took experiences from our own life and applied the ABCX model to them. The ABCX model is

Actual Event

 +Both Resources and Response

+Cognitions

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=total eXperience

You determine what the outcome of a crisis is going to be. You can take the event and react to it badly and then the whole thing will just turn out bad. Or you can reverse that process and react to it positively and it will turn out for the better. 

There are several resources that we have that can help us to cope with stressors. They include but are not limited to:

Money

Family Members

Knowledge

The Gospel

Peers

Skills

Friends

If you combine some of them and use them to your advantage, you are more likely to come out on top of the situation depending on what it is. 

In the end, I learned a lot about how to deal with problems that can come up in a family. Attitude is everything.