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Please contact me if you are interested in a complimentary audio c.d, Letting Go of Loss.

This is an offer I am making to new subscribers to my newsletter, Happiness Boot Camp, but I want to make sure that my “gift” is available to all my blog readers.

So, if you are interested, please register for my newsletter and include your snail mail address…

Promise I will not sell, post….or better yet, come visit you (unless invited)

Writing, producing, and mailing this c.d will be yet one more adventure for all of us who

refuse to grieve alone….

Blog on,

Beth

PS The c.d will not include me singing, but instead I will walk you through a  guided imagery exercise designed to be another tool to accompany you as you travel through your transition.

At the root of happiness, well-being, resilience and living a satisfying life is the concept of “playing to your strengths.” Currently there are a couple of measures which address strengths, and the one I am suggesting people engage in is the Values in Action (VIA) Signature Strengths Test (site listed in resource section to the left.)

So often throughout our lives we can find ourselves in situations which don’t “feel” right. Of course, the first impulse is to question, “what’s wrong with me?” “how do I need to change to adapt to this setting?” We have all been coached and schooled in examining our “short comings” but rarely do we attend to and value those underlying strengths that make us uniquely us.

Humor and playfulness has been a strength of mine for years. However, I didn’t always view that as a strength because in certain settings it was viewed critically by my cohorts or peers. Once I excepted that I need to participate in relationships, settings, and communities where that strength was honored and valued, life became much easier.

An exercise I did when first reading about strengths was to create a collage of my top 5 strengths and I placed it in a key point in my house. I essentially began to honor and respect those top 5 strengths and when the world “tilted” I would question how my strengths might enter in to “save me.” As I became braver I looked at the virtues that were at the bottom…like so many of my favorite people, my all time low scoring virtue was “self regulation”. As has been suggested by Ben Dean, Phd and others, we can use our top strengths to “work with” our “weaknesses”.

So, if you haven’t taken the VIA yet, I hope this serves to encourage you to start examining what’s right with you instead of what’s wrong with you…

Lead with your muscle…

Beth