Understanding Stress and Finding Stress Relief

Don't let stress and pressure negatively impact your wellbeing, work, or relationships. Small lifestyle adjustments can make a really big difference.

When stress builds up or is prolonged, it becomes overwhelming, reducing your ability to cope with the challenges of day to day living. Failing to address the ever-increasing stressors in your life can come at the cost of burnt-out, no time to nurture meaningful relationships, poor health and can’t find peace of mind.

What is stress?

Stress is the body’s reaction to feeling threatened or under pressure from a situation or life event. It's very common and can be motivating to help us to achieve things in our daily life, like meeting the demands of home, work and relationships.

However, if our stress response is activated repeatedly with micro stressors or is constantly switched on over time, the effects can create wear and tear on the body and mind, eventually leading to burn-out.

Causes of stress.

Relationships.

Conflict and toxic relationships at home, work and socially create underlying feelings of discomfort if not resolved. Rifts, resentments and rejection can lead to feeling usupported, disconnected and even loneliness.

Chronic Illness or Injury.

Daily living with chronic illness or injury is debiltating, limiting and challenging which can put more stress on an already overtaxed body. Whether that is yourself or caring for another, it can be tiring and demanding.

Push, Push, Shove.

Stuck in bussyness mode or overachieving, juggling too many responsibilties and putting your needs last, trying harder to please everyone except yourself can lead to emotional and pyshical exhaustion.

Major Life Transitions.

Whether by your choice or not, life transitions creates a period of uncertainty. Moving home, loss of job, death of a loved one, getting married or seperation all create long term stress that you can’t escape from.

Unhappiness.

When life doesn't live up to expectations or a sense that something is missing it can impact negatively on emotional and mental wellbeing creating dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression and anger.

Environment.

Living and working in unhealthy and uncomfortable spaces, like untidyness, noise/light pollution, lack of privacy, not feeling safe in your surroundings can influence moods, behaviour and motivation.

Some symptoms of stress:

Body - Headaches, muscular tension, tiredness, IBS

Mind - Worry, can’t concentrate, indecision, negativity

Mood - Loss of confidence, irritability, anxious, overwhelm

Behaviours - Accident prone, over/under-eating, drinking more, restlessness

Stress relief will help you to:

✔️ Break the hold stress has or your personal or professional life.
✔️ Create more balance between work, relationships, relaxation and fun
✔️ Increased focus and attention
✔️ Build resilience to stand firm under pressure and meet life’s challenges head-on
✔️ Use more healthy ways to deal with stress and improve wellbeing
✔️ Better communication within relationships
✔️ Stabilised emotions and radiate composure
✔️ More energy and feel great about yourself as a result

About Stress Mangement.

Stress management helps you to recognise your stressors and look at healthier ways to deal with them. As a result, you will be able to break free of the hold stress has on your personal or professional life.

Together we will create a plan to reduce stress levels via coping strategies, boundary setting, relaxation techniques and more.

At the end of our time working together, you will feel very different. You will go away with a whole toolkit of skills and insights that you’ll know how to use at any moment to stress-less and have confidence in any situation.

What People Are Saying.

"I am now more calm and relaxed. I’m starting to recognise when my thoughts become negative and I can now replace them with more helpful ones."

“Thank you for helping me get to know myself more. You have changed my life for the better and I will not forget it.”

"You made the entire session feel so comfortable, relaxing and lovely.”

“You helped save my marriage and my kids growing up without a father.”

“I was scared of making the wrong decision about where my life was heading and talking to you helped me to think about things more calmly. I wouldn't have coped as well as I did without your support.”