Imagine that you’re facing the worst: a serious illness, the loss of your job, the end of a relationship, whatever catastrophe you fear. As difficult as this imagined scenario might be, you’re not going to roll over and surrender, even if that’s what you believe you would do. You’ll try to cope with it for yourself and for those who care about you. Tyra created a Plan to Jump Back from the Worst for her chronic worry that her boyfriend would break up with her and that she would be unable to handle the loss and her feelings of loneliness.

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