Stress and Crisis
Posted on January 31, 2010. Filed under: Advice from Outside, Motivation, Relationships, Stress and Crisis, Time and Work | Tags: Campuspeak, College, Conflict, Dr. Laura Osteen, Leadership, Mike Dilbeck, Responsibility, VA Hayman Barber |
Saturday morning rolled around and my alarm went off at 8 a.m. Now I really did not want to get up. I was up late the night before and I wasn’t really sure what I could get out of a leadership conference anyway. Was it really going to be worth losing sleep? Here’s what I [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2009. Filed under: Stress and Crisis, Time and Work | Tags: accomplishment, celebrate, College, finals, Finals Week, focus, lists, organization, study |
The dreaded finals week is almost here… If you don’t have any finals, like me, then you don’t have anything to worry about! But, like most people, you probably do. The thought of staying focused for another week or two inevitably induces feelings of lethargy and the increasingly strong desire to just go to sleep. [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: Stress and Crisis | Tags: College, Conflict, Coping, Crisis, Emotions, Grief, loss, Moving On, Understanding |
While my mom was sick, she dealt with it by writing these “Cindy Updates,” which she made sound cheerful and pain-free and sent them to everyone. Everyone asked about her and her illness, so this was just the easiest way to keep everyone updated. Writing has also been helping me to just get my emotions [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2009. Filed under: Stress and Crisis | Tags: College, Conflict, Coping, Counseling, Crisis, Emotions, Grief, loss |
My personal crisis, dealing with my mother’s sickness and endless treatments, continued through second semester of my freshman year. Then I went home for the summer. The chemo didn’t make my mom lose her hair and the doctor put her on steroids, so she looked and acted pretty normal. No one really knew how horrible [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2009. Filed under: Stress and Crisis | Tags: College, Coping, Crisis, Grief, grieving, loss, Understanding |
During my first year at college, I found out my mom had metastatic melanoma. Even though I was the one who had found the cancerous mole on her back the previous April, nothing prepared me for hearing that news. I had just gotten home for winter break, it was December 17, just eight days before [...]
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