San Diego Therapist Blog: Regina Huelsenbeck, PhD

If you fall down (and we all fall down) you will learn to get back up again. It's just a part of life, and actually a fairly big part of life. Suffering is the first noble truth of Buddhism---meaning: suffering is unavoidable. To suffer is to endure pain or distress; sustain loss, injury, harm or punishment (dictionary.com). Paradoxically, finding your way through difficult times - finding a way to get back up again bares some of the sweetest fruits of life. From frustration you find the inner resource, somewhere, somehow. Whether you're wrangling with a cancer diagnosis, the death of a loved one, the depths of clinical depression, or out-of-your-skin anxiety....even with seemingly impossible circumstances, you can learn how to get back up again...If you haven't seen Nick Vujicic's "Are you going to finish strong?" please click this link and find the hope to get back up again.