Hello everyone!

I hope that you are having a very pleasant Wednesday.

Are you stressed out? Me too.

Below is perhaps the best article that I have seen on identifying types of stress and how to cope with it.

http://helpguide.org/mental/stress_management_relief_coping.htm

Did you read it? That’s okay, I skimmed it too. Well anyway, the article focuses on taking control of your life and coming to the realization that you are calling the shots.

The first recommendation of the article is to identify the sources of stress in your life.

Second, really take a look at the way that you cope with stress. You can either change your situation or your reaction to the situation. This section of the article also gives a pretty vast list of unhealthy methods of coping with stress. (I read them and realized that I am guilty of almost all of them.) You should learn the healthy ways of managing stress. The four main ways are avoiding the stressor, altering the stressor, adapting to the stressor or accepting the stressor.

If you have a couple of minutes, I would highly recommend reading the whole article. It changed my day.

~Alanna