{"id":1194,"date":"2010-12-08T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2013-08-03T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:08:13","slug":"twirl-019-12810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-019-12810","title":{"rendered":"TWIRL 019 (12\/8\/10): Problem Solving &#038; Conflict Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Week in Recovery Lesson<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Effective Problem-Solving &amp; Conflict Resolution<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>When troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. <\/strong>James 1:2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please respond to the following questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How do you manage anxiety and stress? What do you do, specifically?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How do you manage disappointment and pain? Again, what do you do, specifically?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What have you done to confront problems in your life? What do you tend to do?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Provide an example of how you have given into negativity while ignoring positives in circumstances and relationships and how that affected you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Provide an example of how you have predicted\u00a0scenarios\u2014imagined the worst\u2014about how something will turn out prior to addressing the situation and how that affected you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Provide an example of how you have drawn wrong conclusions about a particular situation and how that affected you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The truth is that so much of what you <em>imagine<\/em> to be true, from wounded memories of past experiences, isn&#8217;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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now click on <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Open TWRAC 019\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/twrap\/twrap-019-12810\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">TWRAC 019<\/span><\/a> to develop an action plan for problem solving and conflict resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-via=\"StevieMG\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=TWIRL+019+%2812%2F8%2F10%29%3A+Problem+Solving+%26+Conflict+Resolution\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-019-12810\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week in Recovery Lesson Effective Problem-Solving &amp; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/lessons\/twirl-019-12810\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","category-twirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}