Everyone encounters stress during their lives at one point—never-ending bills, demanding schedules, work, and family responsibilities—and that can make stress seem inescapable and uncontrollable. Stress management skills are designed to help a person take control of their lifestyle, thoughts, and emotions and teach them healthy ways to cope with their problems.
Find the Cause
The first step in stress management is identifying your stressors. While this sounds fairly easy—it’s not hard to point to major changes or a lot of work piling up—chronic stress can be complicate as to being more long term or has a foundation in some core beliefs that we are not aware of.
Strategies for Stress Management
Once we have found what causes your specific stress, we can explore ways you can focus on what you can control. We can work on finding ways to actively develop strategies in the areas you can control. This may be concrete actions or it may be management of your your thoughts and perceptions of a situation.
Identifying how you can make time to reset your nervous system and relax your mind and body will be helpful. Alone time can be whatever you need it to be. Some people like doing activities such as tai chi, yoga, or meditation, but you can also treat yourself to something simple, like taking a bubble bath, listening to music, or watching a funny movie.
We will allow time for processing your stress and identifying it's core components and then work together on what would be most helpful for you as the unique individual you are.
Service areas include Jenks, Bixby, Glenpool, Sapulpa, Tulsa and Broken Arrow in-person and online throughout Oklahoma
