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The meanings we make of our situation one month into the COVID-19 pandemic are going to be different than the ones we had immediately, and will likely change as time progresses. Meaning-making is a powerful process toward recovery, resilience, and thriving. To understand how we make meaning requires us to partake in the aforementioned step of exploring our beliefs. Simply stated, meaning-making is the process by which we take the information our world presents us, interpret it, and ascribe a cognition. The hope is that spirituality can provide a framework that facilitates health-focused coping, and can serve as a personal and family resource. For the purposes of this post, I’m going to talk about how spirituality can be a pathway from which we make meaning. The scholarly literature around meaning-making is quite vast.

Do any beliefs invite discord? Healing?.

How do family members believe differently? Similarly?.

What beliefs do all family members hold?.

What does the belief invite the family (parents/kids/extended system) to do?.

How does the problem or the solution perpetuate the belief?.

How does the belief perpetuate the problem or the solution?.

How are the belief and the problem or solution connected?.

These beliefs will inform how you make sense of your current situation (i.e., meaning-making) and will influence your emotions and behaviors.įor further exploration see the reflective questions below, taken from Lorraine Wright, Wendy Watson, and Janice Bell: For example: “I believe that I have control of my environment and if I self-isolate, I will not contract the virus,” or “I believe that it’s only a matter of time before I get it.” Both of these are valid beliefs and are informed by your organized belief systems, values, experiences, perceptions, interpretations, and so much more.

Take a moment to explore your beliefs around COVID-19. Taking some time to explore your beliefs can reveal that there are constraining beliefs (e.g., those that can perpetuate issues and restrict potential solutions) and facilitating beliefs (e.g., those that create an option for a solution). Some of our beliefs may be more useful than others, and it is often the discord between the beliefs we hold and the actual world around us that tend to become problematic. This is where the magic of meaning making takes place.

Clinically, I have found these terms to be extraordinarily powerful when our beliefs are challenged-or as Park speaks to it, “our global meaning is in discord with our situational meaning.” – Personally, I have sat with hundreds of individuals and families who are experiencing loss, and have helped them to reconstruct a sense of meaning in their world in order to move them toward a path of healing. Softening suffering, constraining beliefs, and facilitating beliefs are phrases I have borrowed from scholars in the field of family nursing who have dedicated their work to understanding illness narratives, illness beliefs, and spirituality’s role in suffering. Often our beliefs are not brought to our consciousness until something challenges them. Many of our beliefs are rooted in spirituality and/or religion. As we develop, our beliefs may change, they may become more rigid, or they may become more pliable. Each person’s beliefs are unique, and help inform how we make meaning in life and how we make sense of events and circumstances in our life. Beliefs are socially constructed, developed and nurtured by community, and solidified by language used within your family or social system. They are woven in our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

To increase in wealth or success to prosper, be profitable.Our beliefs are made up of a collection of core assumptions or premises about what is “true” in our worldview.

1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 3: The growing things jumbled themselves together into a dense thicket so tensely earnest were things about growing in Skedans that everything linked with everything else, hurrying to grow to the limit of its own capacity weeds and weaklings alike throve in the rich moistness.

Tolkien, The Hobbit, Chapter 4:ĭwarves had not passed that way for many years, but Gandalf had, and he knew how evil and danger had grown and thriven in the Wild, since the dragons had driven men from the lands, and the goblins had spread in secret after the battle of the Mines of Moria. I think I never saw / Such starved ignoble nature nothing throve: / For flowers - as well expect a cedar grove!

1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, X:.

“It seems to me, reverend father,” said the knight, “that the small morsels which you eat, together with this holy, but somewhat thin beverage, have thriven with you marvellously.”