Stress Management
Stress is a normal response to many of life’s challenges. You may experience stress emotionally and/or physically. However, when stress becomes constant or becomes “chronic stress,” you may encounter an increase or worsening of a range of health problems including digestion issues, headaches, and/or sleep issues etc. According to the National Institute of Health, chronic stress has also been linked to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and other mental health illnesses.
THERAPY FOR STRESS MANAGEMENT?
Although occasional stress is normal, constant or chronic stress can become difficult to manage or leave you feeling disempowered. You may even find it easy to manage stress in one part of your life but difficult in another.
Therapy can be a helpful space to examine how you manage stress. Through a deeper look at your personal relationship to stress, you can evaluate how well your current stress management tools are serving you. You may find the need to strengthen your current stress management tools, create new tools, or simply diversify your toolkit to address the various unique stressors in your life.
Below are some tools that can be learned in therapy and are shown through research to help manage stress:
Relaxation Techniques
Meditation and Mindfulness Practices
Yoga