Life has a way of life-ing and adulting isn't always easy. In the first part of our "When things don't go as planned" mini series, we will be talking about coping with life's curve balls and how to do so in a way that can actually benefit you in the process.

In this episode we cover:

- What has left Serena speechless

- Why we have stopped annual planning

- How we avoid setting ourselves up for frustration and disappointment

- How the sudden changing of plans can impact you beyond just inconvenience

- What we have discovered about coping

- Needs whack-a-mole

- How consistency helps us to cope

- The difference between repression/masking and coping

- Serena's coping process

- Examples of ways we cope

- How we make coping harder for ourselves

- The choice we have when coping

- Coping within the coping process

- The importance of finding time and space

- The minute that has changed the coping process for Serena

- What is a reaction?

Our last episode where we talk about releasing the pressure is Episode 118 - I feel like I want to be angry but I don't know why

The episode in which we talk about the star trek shields and the med packs is Episode 28 - An antidote to anxiety

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