Catherine Bell asks you to count on your fingers how many of these five things have hit your family: death, divorce, serious illness diagnosis, economic downsizing, or job loss. Each one devastates you emotionally and financially. Together they can break a person.
This is a really important piece because the more families that I speak to or stages that I speak from, I literally have everybody hold up their hands. So everybody do me a favor, hold up your hands, put up so I can see your fingers. And what you're going to do is I'm going to give you the 5 D's. However many D's your family has literally dealt with, I want you to hold up that many fingers. We're going to do a test. So it's death, divorce, diagnosis, downsized from the economy, or being dumped from your jobs. All of these are emotionally devastating, let alone financially devastating, and you couple that together and literally it will break a person.
