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Breaking the Habit of Our Unhealthy Stress Cycle

…eryday anxiety). So what does anxiety have to do with stress? A Word about Stress: The word stress is thrown around about as much as the word love. “I’m so stressed out,” “I’m under a lot of stress lately,” “my kids, my job, the news. . . make me so stressed.” To clarify, stress is healthy and needed; it is why we are here. Our ancestors survived by activating their biological system to engage in life, to fend off what was threatening, and find wh…

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Secrets to a Less Stressful Life

…r you practice gets stronger” is a useful one to remember when it comes to stress. If you practice stress, it will become the norm. If you practice calming yourself, it can also become the norm. When you feel your emotions start to spiral out or overpower you, remind yourself to take just one moment to pause and tune in to yourself. Take a few deep breaths, and slow down your thoughts. You might even put one hand on your belly and another on your…

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How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

…easingly dangerous. Millions of Americans have reached unhealthy levels of stress. Stress weakens our immune system and contributes to high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes and other illnesses. Between 60 and 90 percent of doctor’s visits are stress-related. Our response to feeling overwhelmed, unfortunately, is often to try to get more done, adding more to do’s to our to-do list and feeling more stress. The results are the opposite of effec…

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Understanding Stress

…maintain a powerful, proactive stance. It’s important that we do not make stress a lifestyle. When stressed, take a moment to slow down and get in touch with yourself. Forget about all that you have to do, and find a way to focus on you. For some, this may be meditation. For others, it may be listening to a certain song. Once you are “back in your own skin” you will have a more accurate perspective about the overall balance of your life. You will…

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Quiz: How Stressed Are you?

…control. What we can control is how we cope with these challenges. We can use the tools available to us to build our resilience and live a less stressful life. So how much does stress influence your life? What causes you the most stress? And how stressed are you? Take this quiz to get an evaluation of how stressed you really are? Once you have taken this test, read PsychAlive’s Stress Key Topic and begin your journey to a life of less stress. Cli…

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A New Way to Say Goodbye to Stress

…eal solution to those nagging (at times terrorizing) thoughts that lead to stress. The mere mention of the word stress is enough to make our heads spin with thoughts of to-do lists, meetings, schedules, social calendars, kids, work, money. Whatever the trigger mechanism is, it’s always there to distract us from any potential sense of calm. When we allow our negative thoughts to take over, we spend precious energy handling the symptoms of stress in…

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Dr. Don Meichenbaum on the Application of Stress Inoculation Treatment for Individuals Suffering from PTSD

…dence-based that should guide and influence our treatment decision making. Stress Inoculation   Stress inoculation and its variations has emerged as one of the key treatment modalities for people who have anger and aggressive problems. It’s now been employed with combat vets, with prisoners, with adolescent offenders, and there are a number of analog studies with college students, it’s been applied to people who have rage, driving rage and so on,…

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Trauma-Informed Care: Recognizing & Treating Toxic Stress: Part 1

…irst. Next, the therapist and client work together to build more resources to explore what happened, and manage the tremendous challenges of traumatic stress. See Trauma-Informed Care: Recognizing & Treating Toxic Stress Part 2…

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The Wellness Paradox: The Stress of Being Healthy

…tual information on health in general. Now, not only are we faced with the stress from adhering to this new trend of Wellness, we are also faced with the stress of not knowing what information to trust in a world where the amount of available information is unyielding. We can rid ourselves from the stress invoked by this new trend by being mindful of how this trend affects our mental health. A healthy body includes a healthy mind, and while stress…

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Letting Go of Holiday Travel Stress

…ick Exercises to Calm Your Mind that can help you let go of holiday travel stress. You can try this anywhere and anytime while traveling to begin neutralizing the stress and stepping into what really matters. Be an Ambassador of Compassion “When sitting on a plane (or substitute your mode of transportation), see the ‘choice point’ by considering all the other people on the plane who are also struggling with being an anxious traveler. Remember, up…

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