Tips for Handling Stress

What is Stress?

Stress is your body’s reaction to a change that requires a physical, emotional or behavioural adjustment or response. It goes all the way back to our hunter-gatherer days when our reaction was limited to ‘fight or flight’. It’s now known as the ‘stress response’. It’s the way your body and mind reacts to disturbances in our equilibrium.

Stress is caused by pre-existing factors (different in all of us) known as stressors. Internal stressors are the types of stress that include those unwanted feelings you experience that cause unease, including uncertainties, dramatic changes, apprehensions and unrealistic expectations. External stressors are around you and include traumas, your everyday hassles and general life experiences.

The one constant about stress is that it isn’t constant in any of us. We all react differently. What is highly stressful to you will be of little concern to someone else. Intolerable to you may be stimulating to another and some people can handle stress better than others.

Tips for Handling Stress

The Mental Health website has useful information for  handling stress and practical tips for day to day life:

How I can help

Stress is normal. We have all suffered from stress and it isn’t limited to any particular age group, gender, socio-economic or cultural background but you can reduce its overriding effects by first recognising there’s an issue and then developing the skills to deal with it.

That’s where Behavioural Freedom comes in. Please go to my Stress page to find out more about the symptoms of stress and how I can free you from the unwanted behaviours that stop you from doing the things you really want to do.

Please contact me today to start the journey back to behavioural freedom.