Do you experience multiple life stressors in your many roles and relationships as wife, mother, care-taking daughter, friend and career professional? Maybe you experience inadequate physical and emotional support from your spouse/partner, along with parenting demands from children, aging parent responsibilities and career challenges.
How do you
handle stress?
At this site we offer advice to help you learn
what causes stress
and find ways to
reduce stress
to have a more rewarding life. We also want you to learn how to lead a healthy life as you take care of others. You are not going to be effective if you are not able to maintain your own good
health
and wellbeing. It is no fun feeling as though you are rushing to complete your daily tasks against a ticking clock.
Don't let the clock become your enemy. If people continually ask you to help with projects like organizing school functions or office holiday parties, learn to say "no," or "not this time." Review your personal
definition of stress
and learn to
take control
of these situations by both (1) saying "no" and (2) setting priorities.
At first, this can be fun, but after a while, you start to feel resentment and the stress takes over! This is why you need your most effective
time management strategies!
Remember. Stress happens to everyone and can be motivational and productive or negative and destructive. Seasonal changes, job changes, family life changes--these can all disrupt your life balance and cause anxieties or a type of
depression.Depression in women
is a frequent emotional consequence from continually experiencing stressful situations.
Life stressors can be caused by major events in our lives such as
financial stress,conflicts in relationships,the stress of divorce,
or
anxiety in children
, require a combination of strategies to reach the ending resolution. Coping is often your only option to get you through major life stressors. However, this doesn't have to be as hopeless as it sounds. Many other women have dealt with similar life stressors to yours, and as hard as it is, they learn to overcome such adversities.
Since you can't banish all of your life stressors, you will find it helpful to use some
stress relief
strategies in order to reverse your stress response as quickly as you can. In this way you can prevent the stress from becoming a chronic, long term experience which could cause physical damage to your body. When
stress becomes extreme
you risk the possibility of developing a stress related illness. You can prevent some of the negative effects of stresss by practicing healthy habits. Read our article on Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle by using these
stress management tools.
Gracie suggests that relaxing is like playing an instrument. To become proficient, we must practice, practice, practice.
Don't let the clock become your enemy. If people continually ask you to help with projects like organizing school functions or office holiday parties, learn to say "no," or "not this time." Review your personal
