Episode 37 – Life’s Most Stressful Events – Marriage
Apr 17, 2011 Family Preparedness, Relationships
On the list of Life’s Most Stressful Events, marriage comes in with a score of 50. 100 being the most stressful which is the death of a spouse. Let’s assume they mean the process of getting married is stressful, because I don’t think marriage is a constant stress, half as stressful as your spouse dying.
Today, I present some questions to ask of yourself and your future spouse about what you marriage might look like. Look at all the facets of married life – children, family, finances, careers and the possibility of what might end your marriage. Ask each other the “What if’s”.
If you can get through these kind of questions and whatever ones you come up with along the way, you may find less stress in getting married and begin to enjoy the married life a lot sooner than if you didn’t talk things through. Let me know what you think of the podcast in the forums or comments below!
Tags: careers, children, couples, events, family, finances, life, marriage, prepared, stress
Episode 36 – Life’s Most Stressful Events – Passing of a Family Member and Major Injury or Illness
Apr 5, 2011 Family Preparedness
This episode covers 2 more of life’s most stressful events. Is anyone ever really prepared for these things to happen? Probably not, but even some degree of preparation can help you dramatically. Sometimes even just thinking about these things and recognizing that they do happen, can be some comfort.
I hope you get something out of this podcast – it was a hard one to do. Just thinking and talking about the subject matter was very stressful for me. It may be distressing to listen to, and to think about these possible disasters. Nonetheless, we have to face the topic, if we are going to be prepared at all for it.
My sincere prayers and wishes are that you never have to go through any of this. Yet I also want you to be prepared if you have to go through it.
Tags: CBT, death, disability, family, illness, injury, preparedness, therapy
Episode 5 – About Safety and Security
Sep 21, 2009 Philosophy, Preparedness and Mazlow
Continuing on with the whole Mazlow’s Hierarchy of Needs theme, I’ve moved us up to the second level. Here we try to meet the needs of safety – safety of home, body, family, morality and employment. Again, it’s a brief overview with just a few details. In the coming weeks, once we’ve made it through the hierarchy, we look at a few of these in greater detail.
So far, so good. I don’t think I mentioned this in the podcast like I wanted to, however I read that the hierarchy is used by advertising agencies to sell to our needs and insecurities. I’ll touch on that more tomorrow along with a ‘revelation’ I had about that.
