Strategies for the Overworked & Owerwhelmed

According to Sieg, Emergency Living is life-threatening and harms physical and emotional well-being, as well as relationships and overall quality of life by keeping people in a ôconstant state of chaos, crisis and confusionö (2002, p. xiii). Many of those who end up in emergency situations have created their own situation by living life as an emergency, rather than take each moment as it comes.

Chapter 1: Emergency Living (pages 1-14)

One of the many ways that emergency living comes about is staying busy by being busy, and therefore overdoing everything in life. Sieg puts forth seven warning signs for emergency living:

You are always running late-just a little.

You have accumulated piles everywhere: piles of clothing, piles of paper, and piles of piles you are going to get to someday.

You find yourself in one of three modes: ôhurry up,ö ôcatch up,ö or ôfed up.ö

You constantly lose things: your glasses, car keys or important dates such as someoneÆs birthday.

You have no patience for heavy traffic, grocery lines or anything else that takes too long.

You pride yourself on how much you get done and how fast you do it.

You frequently find yourself saying, ôWhen things slow down. . .ö

Sieg points that the most simple place to start is by recognizing that slowing down is

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ows the body to relax and be able to adapt to any more stressful or painful events without tightening up and making it worse. Chapter 5: Changing Status (pages 51-60) ôChange is inevitableö (p. 51) asserts Sieg. The first thing to do when change happens is to recognize it for what it is. Be aware of it and acknowledge it. Then begin anticipating change. Be both self-aware and aware of what is going on around you. Next, embrace change. Change your perspective from ôifö to ôwhenö and visualize what may be the case, visualized the possibilities and opportunities instead of the negatives, the hassles, and the possible disappointments. Chapter 6: The Treatment Plan (pages 61-72) A treatment plan is usually specific to the diagnosis and is meant to be deliberate procedures to address the patientÆs problems. Therefore, live life intentionally and care things out as if they were part of a treatment plan. This means being mindful, present, and deliberate in thoughts and actions. Chapter 7: The Overdose (pages 73-88) There are five key areas where people consistently overdo something. These areas are: ô1) food intake, 2) exercise, 3) work responsibilities, 4) social life, and 5) spendingö (p. 74). Overdoing it in any of these a
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