How to Recover From a Career Loss

How Others Have Recovered from Professional Career Loss

Most traumatic issues a person experiences in one profession are similar to ones in other professions. Most people cycle through the following five phases.
The materials below are ones that will help any professional in any profession. They include downloads, website links, videos, inspirations, book reviews, and original materials from members.

Find Allies

Find True Allies

Want To Know Who Your True Friends Are?
Are They Really Your Friend? 15 Signs That Suggest Otherwise
Seven Ways to Uplift a Friend (and Yourself) in Crisis
21 Things A Friend can do for you
How to Ask for Help in a Crisis
60 Creative Ways to Help a Friend in Crisis

Embrace Your Family

10 Ways to Keep Your Marriage Together After Losing a Job
Your Spouse Lost a Job to Substance Abuse Addiction: Now What?
9 Reasons Your Spouse Lost Their Mind When You Lost Your Job
Coping When Your Spouse is Unemployed
Help! My Partner is in Prison
How to Survive When Your Spouse Goes to Prison
How to Cope with a Spouse's Incarceration

Stand Up

Avoiding Depression

Depression After a Job Loss: Statistics and How to Cope
If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours
Coping with a Career Crisis
How to avoid depression immediately after getting fired
How to Survive and Thrive After Being Fired
Avoiding Depression Relapse

Recoverying and Resilience

This Is How To Recover From Tragedy: 4 Secrets From Research
Didn't See it Coming (Book)
8 Steps to Bouncing Back After Getting Fired
7 Ways To Recover After A Major Failure Or Mistake
How do you recover after a white collar felony conviction?
Recover from Trauma and Humiliation
Three Tips for Recovering from Public Shaming

Take Action

Fighting Back

When Bad Things Happen, Tell Your Story
Firing Back
Let the Response Fit the Scandal

Staying Healthy

Eating Healthy when depressed
Eating Right When You Don't Feel Like it
Not-Overwhelming Ways To Eat Healthy When You're Depressed
Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms Exercise for depression: It really does help

Recovering Your Reputation

Can You Recover From a Public Scandal?
Reputation Recovery: What to do after the crisis subsides
7 Ways to Recover After a Reputation Crisis
How does one recover from a damaged reputation?

Let Go of the Past

Forgiving and Forgetting

How to Forgive a Boss who’s Wronged You
How can I forgive my previous boss who ruined my life with mobbing and eventually fired me?
Should You Forgive?
10 Healthy Ways to Forgive

Strengthening Your Spirituality

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New Canaan Society - Resources
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NCS Video Stories
21 Ways to Build a Stronger Spiritual Life
Easy Ways to Grow Your Spirituality

Breaking Patterns of Alcohol or Drug Abuse

Grief and Substance Abuse – Coping after a Loss
Welcome to Alcoholics Anonymous
10 Signs You Have A Drinking Problem
Why some people swear by Alcoholics Anonymous — and others despise it
After 75 Years, We Still Don't Know Why AA Works
When Alcoholism Leads to Job Loss – Tips for Recovering

Move Forward to Your Next Chapter

Rethinking Your Finances

Can I Retire Yet?
Early Retirement Now
White Coat Investor
Budgets are Sexy
Physician on Fire
Best FIRE (Financial Independence, Early Retirement) Blogs You Shouldn’t Miss

Career Hunting

Job Hunting
Designing Your Life (book)
8 Steps to B0uncing Back
How I Moved on After Getting Fired
Getting Fired or Laid Off: A Survival Guide
Getting Fired — Something Dies and Something Is Born

Paying the Debt

Prison, Probation, and Suspension
White Collar Crime and Recovery
White Collar Advice on Life in Federal Prisons
My Prison Years (video)
How do you recover after a white collar felony conviction?

Case Studies of Success

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Reinventing Yourself
From Scandal To Bigger, Better Careers: 5 People's Stories
NCS Video Stories
We Got Fired! And it's the best thing that ever happened to us (book)

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