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Using Coping Cards and Coping Statements to Improve Mental Health
Coping cards filled with coping statements can help you trade negative self talk with healthier, more positive replacements. Writing coping cards is an easy, no-cost intervention that might just help you. Read on to learn how to get started.
Relapse Prevention: How to Relax with Imagery
Learn to relax with imagery in 7 easy steps; it’s a great skill that protects you from relapse.
Recognize the Physical Signs of Stress and Learn 2 Quick Ways to Turn it Off
Listen to your body to quickly diagnose a stress reaction... and quickly regain your calm with 2 easy stress-busting techniques.
The Physical Signs of Chronic Stress
Chronic stress harms the body. Do you live under chronic stress? Is your body sending you a message?
Maintaining Boundaries: How to Say "No" with Compassion
Setting boundaries and limits and saying "no" are some of the hardest things for many people to do. Learning to say "no" without guilt, shame or anger is a necessary life lesson in for living an emotionally healthy life. Setting boundaries and limits is about taking care of yourself at least as well as you might take care of anyone else.
First Responders: A 3 Step Guide to Coping with Stress and Avoiding Burnout
For first responders at risk of PTSD and burnout, learn more about: daily habits that protect you, red-flags that warn of an impending problem and adaptive response techniques that safeguard your professional standing.
Taking Care of Yourself When a Loved One Has Bipolar
Living with a person with bipolar is overwhelming. We often neglect ourselves and this can lead to burnout. Here are some tips for caring for yourself when the goal is to help a love one who has bipolar disorder.
Noise and Stress – How Environmental Noise Levels Can Spike Your Stress Load
Need to cut your stress load but not sure where to start? Well, if you live or work in noisy surroundings your environment may affect your physiological stress response in ways you’re not even aware of. Reduce some of the noise pollution from your life and see if you don’t feel a little more of the serenity you’re after!
How Stress Erodes Your Memory – And What You Can Do to Improve Your Recall
Stressed out and wondering why you’re so forgetful these days? Try stopping to smell the roses for a change and see if your memory doesn’t improve a bit… Learn more about how chronic stress impairs your ability to form and retrieve memories and learn how chronic stress destroys brain cells and leads to accelerated age-related memory loss; and most importantly, learn what you need to do to protect yourself from this type of cognitive decline.
5 Risk Factors That Increase Your Odds of Caretaker Burnout
The physical, mental and time demands of caretaking coupled with the emotional aspects of the job make burnout an unfortunate end point for too many who take on the important task of caring for a loved one. But it doesn’t have to end that way - Read on to learn 5 risk factors that up your odds of burnouts and see if you can’t make some changes today to protect yourself against the stress of tomorrow.
Protect Yourself from Caregiver Burnout – 8 Tips and Strategies to Use
Caregiving, if you’re not careful, often leads to burnout. The hours and the frustrations take a significant toll and unless you’re vigilant, you’ll put your health and happiness at risk. But it doesn’t have to go that way – learn 8 ways to be an effective and compassionate caregiver while still protecting what’s important to you and your family.
Burnout Self Test – Do You Exhibit These 20 Signs of Work Burnout?
Has cynicism and fatigue replaced the enthusiasm and drive you once had at work? If so, you may be dealing with burnout, a worrisome psychological state that can rob you of your happiness and even your health. Learn more about burnout and take a quick 20 question quiz to find out if you’re experiencing the symptoms of this stress related condition.
Chronic Stress Leads to Obesity – Cut the Stress to Shed the Pounds
Chronic stress causes brain changes that lead us to crave comfort foods and to actually strive to increase abdominal fat stores – it’s our unconscious mind working against our best intentions! Learn more about how and why stress leads to weight gain and get some tips on things you can do right now to reduce your stress load.
9 Ways to Deal with Stress; Stress Management Techniques
Chronic stress can lead to mental and physical health conditions. Minimizing your stress exposure is best, but many of us can’t practically eliminate stress – so instead we must learn to manage the stress we do experience.
Worrying a Lot about the Earthquake in Haiti – Do You Have a Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Although the closer you are and the more directly affected by a traumatic event the greater your risk of a stress disorder like post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), people who witness very traumatic events can also experience stress disorders, as can people who only watch the events unfold on TV.
Alcohol and Anxiety – Why They Don’t Mix
Although a drink or two can reduce anxiety temporarily, in general, alcohol makes anxiety worse; and sometimes significantly so.
Self-Medicating Harm Reduction: Tips for Safer Self-Medication
Are you self-medicating to cope with stress, anxiety or depression? If abstinence is impossible right now, consider a harm reduction approach to limit the consequences of your self-medication choices.
Stressed or Anxious? Why (and How) to Control Your Breathing
Find out why anxious breathing makes you feel bad and learn a simple, 30-second Deep Breathing Exercise that restores your inner calm.
5 Ways to Reduce Holiday Stress and Anxiety
There’s no denying it – the holidays can be overwhelming, especially if you're in recovery from addiction. Here are 5 ways to cope with stress during the holidays.
Handling and Preventing Stress: A 3-Step Approach
Feeling stressed out? Want to reduce the negative impact of stress on your health and happiness? Here is an easy 3-part recipe to more serenity.