Excerpt from this free booklet: Creating a Turnaround When a significant crisis happens (such as the current economic upheaval that is affecting so many), our stress tolerance level depletes from the initial shock and emotional pain. We become overwhelmed which inhibits our capacity to cope. Yet, it's completely understandable why we feel the way we do. In the first phase, it can be helpful to experience and release the emotional buildup from shock, grief, anger and despair, or to just sit quietly with ourselves in the privacy of our own pain. After this first phase, however long it takes, eventually we need to engage in thoughts of self-care and remember our health concerns. Then we can take some simple steps to start to offset the effects of stress, which will make our recovery much easier. I understand it's hard at first, but the simple suggestions in this booklet can help make it easier to reconnect with our inner strength and security. Though we can't necessarily make our challenges and anxieties suddenly disappear, we can reset our capacity to maintain more easily. As we take steps to reduce the stress where we can, it adds strength and clarity for sorting our way through the more difficult challenges. Even though things "are as they are, we can start to make a psychological turnaround within ourselves, so that excess stress won't create a downward spiral in health. We can offset stress with some simple practices that facilitate attitude shifts and reduce energy drain. This will increase clear thinking as to how we can get the needed help for ourselves and our families. When we are experiencing increased stress, it's often hard to hear some of the points that can most effectively help us. So in this booklet I will cover in a few different ways some important themes that I feel could be the most useful.