Big Ups: Coping skillfully

“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epictetus

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, and I’m proud to live in a world reminding us all about something so crucial, and calling us together to help ourselves and others in our mental storms and tempests.

By and large, facing difficulties is what it means to live. I’m including an article below from Licensed Clinical Social Worker Meghan Breen, describing someone being triumphant after getting through a hardship…