Marsha Jacobson - The wrong calamity

Keynotes

Resilience - Change - Coping Mechanisms - Shifting Perspective - Reframing Challenges - Narrative Building

In this episode of Resilience Unravelled Marsha Jacobson, an author, teacher, and writing coach from New York, shares her life story, and how she overcame her challenging childhood, abusive relationship, and personal struggles to build a successful career and a fulfilling life. She discusses her experiences with vulnerability, resilience, and personal complexity, how she felt unprepared for challenges and how she overcame them. She also discusses her resilience, her journey from teaching to consulting, and her experience in non-profit management and about her second husband's struggle with PTSD that ultimately led to their separation.

Main topics

• The importance of embracing change and transitions as part of personal growth.
• Adopting coping mechanisms such as "tiny experiments" and writing fake headlines to shift perspective.
• Reframing challenges as learning opportunities.
• "Narrative building" as a strategy for reframing challenges.

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You can find out more about Marsha at  https://marshajacobsonauthor.com/about/

Her memoir, The Wrong Calamity, is her debut book.