Promoting Resiliency from Within: An EA Professional Finds That Her Experience Working with Laid-off Employees Provides Her with the Tools She Needs to Overcome the Doubts and Frustrations She Feels when She Finds Herself in the Same Situation (Employee Assistance) (Personal Account‪)‬

Every Monday through Friday for the last 29 years (less the occasional vacation and holiday), I had a reason to get out of bed: I was an employee assistance professional in a large internal EAR As so many people do, I tied my identity to my job. I was making a difference in people's lives. Others always told me I must really love my job due to the amount of hours I spent working. I guess you could say I was a workaholic. Then one day in January, life as I knew it changed. I was let go from the company, a sign of the times to come. I became a statistic, one of many mid-career professionals who would suffer the same fate over the coming months. I now faced what could potentially be the worst period of my life, with the economy going from bad to worse and a husband who was already out of work.