GOING TO PLAN B: How You Can Cope, Regroup, and Start Your Life on a New Path

We’ve all experienced the surprise, shock, and disappointment of “non-events” – reasonable life expectations that go unfulfilled due to chance, circumstance, or simple quirks of fate. There’s the relationship that never blossomed … the promotion that didn’t materialize … the house, the baby, the dreams … Plenty of books address how to deal with negative events but none has dealt with how to handle non-events. Until now.
In this inspiring, practical, and compassionate book, Nancy K. Schlossberg and Susan Porter Robinson explore the rarely-talked-about but commonly experienced phenomenon of what people face when nothing happened but everything changed. Using examples from hundreds of interviews, the authors describe how to identify a non-event and rise above it – to transform those old dreams into exciting new aspirations. Among the various scenarios examined are the desire for love and family – how to live with the lack of romantic love, the disappointment of infertility, estrangement from siblings and more; the expectation for professional success – how to recast your career goals to accommodate today’s radically changed workplace; and the ideal of the perfect self – how to reconcile an unrealistic self-image and find inner peace.