Diablo's Community Forum is Up and Running

So, we're trying out a new feature on diablomag.com and we want to hear from you. We've set up a community forum in connection with our January cover story, Staying Sane in an Insane World. The forum explores how to weather—physically, emotionally, and financially—the recent economic turmoil, and Diablo readers can tell their own stories, read others, and also ask questions from one of our 11 experts in fields ranging from philosophy to 401Ks.

Here's the first Q&A we've gotten so far:

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Question: I am the breadwinner in my household. If I lose my job, we lose everything. We don't have a crisis yet, but I feel anxious all the time and nothing seems to help. What do your experts suggest?

M.J. Ryan: (author and executive coach) What actions can you take to give yourself a bit more peace of mind? Put some money aside? Take in a boarder? Plant a garden? Get rid of one car?
      Then come up with a worst case scenario--if you do lose your job what will you do? Take your fears all the way through to an outcome that you can live through by saying, And then what happens? Then we lose the house and we have to move in with my sister.....And then what happens? Fear is a scary story we're stuck in the middle of. Take it all the way through and see you can survive it.
      In addition, make a list of all your resources, both outer--$, time, friends, family--and internal-- your strengths and talents of mind, body and spirit. Ask yourself what qualities you've cultivated by going through hard times in the past and how you can draw on those now. Give yourself a set amount of time to worry--15 minutes a day at a specific time. Then when your mind starts worrying at other times, tell yourself it's not worry time yet and distract yourself--read a good book, do a puzzle, something that occupies your mind.

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We've heard from a few of you but we'd love to hear more. Click HERE to check out the new forum.

  

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