1. What are the chances that next year at this time, I’ll feel no better?
2. What would I tell my child or my bestfriend if she were in my shoes?
3. What difficulty did I live through in my childhood that makes me think this problem is insurmountable?
4. Does this current challenge reveal a core weakness in me, my relationships, or my work that I am better of knowing about today than I would be five years from now?
5. When I overcome this problem, in what ways will I be stronger?
6. If I lose everything that’s at stake at this moment, what do I still have of value in my life?
7. Who are the people I love most? How much time would I dwell on my current losses if I got the news that just one of them was very ill?
8. What do I already have in my autobiographical “bank” – such as children I’ve raised, people I’ve helped, animals I’ve sheltered, or career goals I’ve reached – that can never taken away from me?
9. If I were writing a short story or a screen play about my life, how would I have the main character (me) turn this problem into an advantage?
10. Has this struggle thought me that someone in my life is a true friend?
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