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Tough Transitions : Navigating Your Way Through Difficult Times

by Elizabeth Harper Neeld

Published: 2005-06-15
Hardcover : 320 pages

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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. In her highly acclaimed previous work Seven Choices, Dr. Neeld helped thousands deal with mourning and loss. Now, with TOUGH ...

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Introduction

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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Introducing the Challenge

Not in their goals but in their transitions are people great.

adapted from RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Why read a book about tough transitions? Aren’t these rough patches as count-on-able as rain and as normal as crabgrass? What more needs to be offered than perhaps a gentle admonition to buck up and move on or, on a really difficult day, a steady hand of support? No one wants to give time to words that only belabor the obvious, even if those words do aim to be inspirational or encouraging. ...

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"Too much emphasis on turning to God for help"by Carol T. (see profile) 02/05/06

Many of the themes in the book were good - but the author used the theme of "turing to God" to help one through their transitions. Turning to God wasn't going to help me with Breast Cancer ... (read more)

"How to "attempt" to navigate through tough transitions"by Mary B. (see profile) 12/13/05

I enjoyed the quotations presented in the sidebars. And that's about all.

Too many personal stories that were incredibly boring made a tough read for me.The author "became too personal" w

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