Eileen Lenson - Overcoming Adversity: Conquering Lifes Challenges

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Adversity Is good. Overcoming it is even better. Trees grow stronger in high winds and people grow stronger with adversity and resistance. If I hadnt gone bankrupt forty plus years ago, I would not have discovered that my problems were my transportation to my destiny i.e. becoming worlds bestselling non-fiction author and a high paid professional speaker. We all go through adversity and this book will inspire you to overcome it with excellence, elegance, and a decision to win bigger than ever.

Mark Victor Hansen, Co-Creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and Co-Chairman/Founder of Metamorphosis Energy LLC.

Everyone will face adversity at some time. Lenson provides a wealth of information that can change the way we look at lifes challenges. Research driven and written in a clear and insightful manner, this book is a must-read for discovering how to successfully thrive in the face of complicated life situations.

Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers and What Got You Here Wont Get You There.

Eileen Lenson has created an essential crutch read. A lifetime psychotherapist and life and business coach, she provides a detailed and elevating map to follow when we are slammed by unexpected and enervating adversity. And we shall be slammed. Long lives assure it and we are longer lived. Lenson identifies the reset button, and creates a practical guide to hold us up and to let us move forward. Hers is a lifetime read.

Frank Keating, Former Governor of Oklahoma who oversaw the tragedies of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 72 devastating tornadoes of 1999.

Surviving was only part of my journey. The toughest part was continuing on. This insightful book will give you the tools to thrive in life to the fullest no matter what adversities you encounter.

George Lamson, sole survivor of Galaxy Airlines Flight #203 in Reno, Nevada Featured in CNN 2014 documentary Sole Survivor.

Through ample clinical experience and cut-edge medical theory, Eileen Lenson shows us how our past traps us, and how to move forward by redefining our lives; for our own well-being, so as not to suffer secondary victimization by the offender. A long awaited guide book that promises to go beyond the individual and well into international relations.

Akira Chiba, Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles

I know Eileen Lenson to be a committed and compassionate individual who has put much research and applied practice into this study. This book will assist its readers by offering practical means to apply in order to overcome hurt and adversity in their lives.

Jeffrey D. Armstrong, President, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA

For anyone who is struggling with a conflict, Eileen's book can help you overcome whatever obstacles are holding you back from living the life you truly want. Highly recommended.

Hal Elrod, #1 bestselling author, The Miracle Morning

This is a warm, wonderful, inspiring book that will give you the practical tools you need to live a wonderful life.

Brian Tracy, Author, Maximum Achievement, Earn What Youre Really Worth, Eat That Frog! and The Psychology of Achievement.

Dedication

To Rachel and Michael

Together may you triumph and find resilience over any challenge that crosses your path.

To Lloyd, my husband of almost 32 years

Without your tolerance for leftovers and a messy house, this book could not have been written. You have influenced every aspect of this book, from introducing me to remarkable people, to cover design to providing critical analysis of chapters on long cross-country and transatlantic flights to and from work. You have supported me in everything I have done or gone through, including tolerating the three of us being in bed together; you, me, and my computer. I dont deserve you, yet would never want to think about being without you. I realize how incredibly fortunate I am to have you by my side. I married very, very well.

Our service puts us in harms way far from our families, often for long periods of time. What we do is hard and dangerous, but it is bigger than any one of us. So we do it as a team. Hardships are shared.

From Who We Are, the Creed of the U.S. Navys Aviation fleet

Harms way. Shared hardships. Dangerous undertakings. Sounds thrilling and difficult and edgy, doesnt it? This is the world in which I spent the majority of my adult life. Naval Aviation. Flying high performance jet aircraft from the flight deck of the United States Navys aircraft carriers. Day and night. The night flights are harrowing. Trying to find, and then land, on a thousand foot long piece of steel thats bobbing like a cork in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night will get ones hear rate and blood pressure up every time. Flying missions in combat. Shooting and being shot at. Often. Long overseas deployment, normally to turbulent hot spots around the globe. And sometimes not everyone comes home.

I have not had the honor and privilege of meeting Eileen Lenson. Yet. I know Eileens husband, though. We sat next to each on a flight from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles last year. As we got to know each, naturally the conversation turned to families. Spouses, children, grandchildren. When Eileens husband told me that she was life coach and helped those in need work their way step-by-step through adversity and return to hope in life, something resonated with me. Given my military career and background, coping with adversity had kinda come with the job description. When Eileen reached out and asked me to share a few thoughts from my own experiences, particularly surrounding loss and recovery, I thought it important to do so. Stories of recovery and resilience should be shared and celebrated. To me, at least, these stories represent a triumph of sorts of the human soul. The journey through Forgiveness, Courage, Perspective, and Perseverance to arrive again at Hope is to take the journey of Eileens wonderful book. It is a read filled with stories. What follows is mine.