Stressors & Stress Busting Strategies

Stress Less: Stressors & How To Cope

Let’s talk about STRESS -- family, work, friends, financial, stressing about stress. You all experience it & it almost seems never-ending. While stress shows up in different ways for different people, it can cause a host of universal issues-- high blood pressure, decreased sleep/insomnia, anxiety, & even decreased immunity. 

That being said, it’s important to start changing your reactions to stress. What are you STRESSORS and how can you take some of the first steps to navigate them?
1) Identify your triggers/causes
2) Focus on the things you can control first
3) Make a plan to cope with or alleviate it
4) Re-adjust as needed.

How do you typically deal with stress? Do you generally turn to food, alcohol, or some other type of coping strategy that you’d like to change? Instead of your usual go-to when it comes to stress, how would it feel to start finding other activities or strategies to help alleviate your stress? These new strategies can gradually take the place of turning to food, drink and any other actions that may not be benefiting you.

Here are a few ideas:
Step out into nature
Spend time enjoying your hobby
Perform an act of kindness
Meditate
Journal
Listen to music
Exercise
Talk to a friend
Spend time with your animals
Substitute eating with drinking water or some other low cal or no cal beverage
Do a puzzle
Read

STRESS LESS ACROSTIC

Here’s a simple one today to get you thinking about ways to decrease stress. 

Use YOUR NAME and, for each letter, think of a word or action that you can do to decrease any stress in your life. Breathe in. Breathe out. SHARE your acrostics in the comments below if you’d like to. ⤵️

Stress Busting Resources:

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