How do you respond to life's changes? There's no right or wrong answer; everyone responds differently. The key is determining your personal response. Day outlines four response types as denial, rage, depression, and anxiety. Are friends amazed that you keep plugging along though you've suffered a great loss? Keeping up with life's demands may sound heroic, but this denial response can prevent you from recognizing the crisis and thus moving through it.

Every response type has strengths that will sustain you through turmoil. The strength for denial types is competence. To grow through a crisis, a person balances his typical response with an opposite response. Those in denial need to experience anxiety, which will help them focus on the problem. People with depression responses need to experience anger, which will help focus their energy outward.

Once you learn your key response, you can use the knowledge to survive the initial problem. If you respond with rage, you channel that anger through sports or other physical and healthy outlets. Day reminds readers to see life as meaningful though the crisis may be painful. Rethinking your approach will help you find a better life. With greater understanding, you can reduce future crises and turn around life's problems.

Welcome to Your Crisis helps you survive crisis and thrive by creating a new life. Day's easy manner translates to talking to a wise friend who understands your pain. Sharing her own crisis, Day survived the nightmare of being divorced with a newborn and found a world she never imagined by becoming an author and healer. I love Day's book, and my copy will be well worn from learning and growing. Not only will you use Welcome to Your Crisis, you will want to buy copies for friends and family. Highly recommended!