How to Bounce Back after Some Seriously Bad Luck

I had often heard the phrase, “when it rains, it pours,” but I had never quite believed it — until I fell victim to a string of bad luck.

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We all fall victim to bad luck at some point in our lives. Whether we’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, or we make a choice that lands us in the muck — bad luck happens, and when it does it can feel impossible to bounce back.

Bad lucks comes in spurts. For me, it seems to come in cycles of three, and when it does it leads to some seriously negative cycles.

I had often heard the phrase, “when it rains, it pours,” but I had never quite believed it — until I fell victim to a string of bad luck that almost equalled the big end for me.

I had positioned myself into a career that looked like it had no end in sight. In 5 years, I had gone from a hopeless waitress-grunt to a successful adult, all in my own right. Suddenly, though, everything was ripped out from my feet when not only my career collapsed, but my health too.

Circumstances were out of my control.

My career was gone and so were all the plans that I had made with it (and the relationships I had built on it too.) My health tanked and there was nothing…