Stress Reduction
Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. It’s one of those things we try to avoid like traffic, but inevitably there it is. Stress and anxiety are part of the human experience and some days are better than others. The good news is that managing anxiety and stress is quite possible.
One of the best strategies to beating anxiety is learning to manage it by accepting that we do not have control over many of the things we wished we did. Knowing how to pick our battles and be aware of the symptoms or triggers to stress and anxiety can be of great benefit. Therapy helps people gain confidence in being better prepared for those unknowns that lay ahead for which we often only have so much control.
Stress reduction methods can be thought of as serving two functions; restorative and preventative. Restorative methods aim to reduce the unpleasant and unhealthy emotional effects of stressful events that have already occurred. Preventative methods help us avoid taking on, or succumbing, to stress in the first place. These methods are designed to, at the very least, reduce the impact of stressful events that inevitably come our way.
