"We are seeing more and more people this year who had good jobs and who never thought they would lose them,.
"This is the first time some of these people are asking for help, and it's hard for them to come to terms with that.
" Orlando Sentinel reporter notes.
Family members nurturing each other in conversation is a worthwhile objective at any time but especially when the effects of sudden loss of finances fracture the family's sense of well-being.
Complex Components of Job and Financial loss

• Everyone in the family is feeling the brunt of the drastic change in your family's economy.
  
• The former employee is in a sense of dismay "how am I going to provide for my family" is the constant thought.
  
• The younger children in the family get the sense that something is wrong and become fearful,
• The teens might have to use the money from their jobs to help the family.
  
• Your children's reactions will vary depending on their ages; the younger ones will be more pliable.
  

Create an environment that gives everyone the opportunity come together and talk about how the change is affecting their life.
By the time of the Recession of '82, my family had already experienced Recession-Anxiety twice.
There were no guidebooks with emphasis on family recovery coping skills when we exhaustingly navigated the fall-out from recession-caused anxiety.
Until Now!

• Our family sanitywas achieved because ofa previously established regular time of family-dialogue when our children were four and seven as a "Love -On-Daddy.
  It evolved into family prayer as our children needed more nurturing-guidance time with Dad and Mom.
  
• Family-Nurturing Communication is conversation with a distinct purpose: creating an environment where all members of the family speak to each other in a non-threatening, non-bullying thoughtful manner.
  

Release The Pain.
Begin to Pray.
Our family survived the many effects of downsizing through the power of prayer...
a Prayer Strategy.
If you are a praying family, you already know the power of prayer; but you may not have a prayer-strategy to make it through this situation.

• Some folks in the faith-community are uncomfortable with the term "prayer-strategy"; it's offensive, contrived or unnatural, they say.
  
• I've found the only response is the Word itself: The Creator-God used a plan (strategy) to put the world in place
• the substances Adam and Eve needed.
  
• Many verses in the Book of Proverbs speak of plans or strategies.