How To Feel Less Stressed

“Dealing with your STRESS is a separate process from dealing with the things that cause your stress. To deal with your STRESS, you have to COMPLETE THE CYCLE.”

Emily Nagoski, PhD/Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking The Stress Cycle

What we refer to as “Stress” can be broken down into three parts:

1. STRESSORS: the triggers that activate the stress response in your body. Triggers can be both external and internal. These stressors cause a stress response in our body. 
2. STRESS RESPONSES: we experience a stress response anytime our Central Nervous System registers any stressor as too much, too fast, or too soon. We may go into Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn. 
3. STRESS CYCLES: our goal is to complete the stress cycle in our bodies by giving ourselves what we really need to either calm down or to re-energize. 

Tonight we’re diving into stressors. 

A stressor can be anything you:

• See
• Hear
• Smell
• Touch
• Taste

Or imagnine will threaten your safety. 

EXTERNAL STRESSORS might include:

• work
• money
• family
• time
• obligations
• expectations
• relationships

INTERNAL STRESSORS may include:

• self-criticism
• memories
• identity
• body image

Other INTERNAL STRESSORS are FEELING:

• excluded
• powerless
• unheard
• scolded
• judged
• blamed
• disrespected
• lonely
• ignored
• forgotten
• unsafe
• unloved
• treated unfairly
• frustrated
• disconnected
• trapped
• passionless
• uncared for
• manipulated
• controlled

These STRESSORS

cause a

STRESS RESPONSE

in our body.

 

I invite you to consider these questions:

When do you notice getting triggered:

• in a certain place?
• with a specific person?
• in a type of situation?
• something else?

Which external stressors do you experience?

Which internal stressors do you experience?

Which stressors can you delele from your life entirely?

Which stressors can’t be deleted but can be  managed?

 

If you know that you need help identifying your stressors, managing stress responses, and/or closing your stress cycles, email me to schedule a complimentary happy hour call. 

 

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