Healthy Coping Skills
By Amy Hartman, MA, LPC, NCC, RPT
So there we all were going about our daily lives, getting used to the kids being back at school, talking about if winter would be mild or hard, deciding if we needed to buy wood this year or if we had enough…and then it started to rain. In the beginning it was just another rainy afternoon in the mountains, an opportunity for some of us to talk about how summer afternoons in Colorado used to always include rain. Then, just like that, everything changed. Intersections began to flood, schools closed, parking lots filled, roads were impassable, creeks overflowed their banks, mobile homes were floating down roads, towns were cut off, roads were sinking and disappearing, and walls of water were coming down canyons. Friends and family all over the world began calling us and folks from around our country started coming to Colorado to help.
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