Chronic Stress: Unhealthy and Healthy Coping Skills
Today is National Stress Awareness Day which is held on the first Wednesday of every November. Today is an opportunity to recognize and reduce the chronic stress factors in your life. I have published 2 posts about stress and how to deal — this is the second. Here is the link to the first. 15 Unhealthy Coping Methods Your world is full of stressors. Exposure to long-term stress can alter your genes, increase inflammation in the body, and cause a wide variety of serious health issues that affect the body and mind. Learning how to cope with chronic stress in healthy ways is vital to reducing and managing stress. However,…
National Stress Awareness Day 2019
Today is National Stress Awareness Day which is held on the first Wednesday of every November. Today is an opportunity to recognize and reduce the stress factors in your life. I have published 2 posts about stress and how to deal– this is the first. Stress: Chronic Or Acute? Most people make the incorrect assumption that all stress is the same, when in fact, there is bad and good stress. This response is a primal reaction that ensured our survival in the past. But in today’s world, we don’t need this survival response as much, if ever. Instead, our responses have been influenced by events such as being late for…
