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December 23, 2009
When you get up on the wrong side of the bed, are you deep in a blue funk before you realize what’s happened? Don’t you wish you could catch yourself at the top of that downward slide–and reverse it?
Help is Here!
I read a terrific blog post that gives you the tools to do exactly that. The article gives specific steps for thwarting that “negativity spiral” and it’s written by Carol Grannick, a writer and licensed clinical social worker in private practice. She works with writers and non-writers who want to create and maintain more resilient, meaningful lives.
The article itself is good, but get a cup of coffee or tea and settle back. In order to get the full impact of the article, you’ll want to follow the five or six embedded links to related articles. (I was surprised to find the last link actually came back to my own blog.)
Thing About What You’re Thinking About!
Noticing and stopping this spiral is going to be one of my New Year’s Resolutions. Catching ourselves at the top of the negativity spiral should certainly be easier than digging ourselves out of pit we’ve fallen into.
I believe this is one of those places where an ounce of prevention truly IS worth a pound of cure!
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