Anxiety & Stress
Anxiety and stress are a part of life. But without understanding our specific stressors, our coping styles, and having healthy skills to deal with stressors, other problems can develop. Often, stress and anxiety manifest with both mental health and physical symptoms reducing the quality of our daily lives. In the case of sever panic, symptoms can even become debilitating.
"Anxiety and stress require engaging differently"
Anxiety
Although you can’t eliminate stress from your life, anxiety is a treatable condition. It is possible to live with stress and have less worry, fear, and suffering by gaining self-awareness and engaging with your stressors differently.
Gaining true self-awareness begins with getting to the root of your stress and understanding the feelings that are leading to the anxiety. It takes time and intention, and often is best brought to light by a caring, objective, and skilled therapist who can help you understand not only what is going on, but what you can do about it.
It can be tempting to want to shove stress and anxiety aside and not want to deal with it, but that doesn’t make it go away. In fact, the answer is to lean in. It is like turning into a skid, that is where you will find balance and get back on track.
Stress
Research shows that moderate, intermittent stress can engage our brain and keep it sharp by developing neuropathways and generating cells that can improve coping skills and memory. However, this is only seen when stress is occasional. Prolonged stress, lack of resiliency, and the habit of worry can have the opposite effect. So, what is a normal and necessary emotion, ongoing anxiety left untreated can impact the peace and productivity in your life.
Managing Stress & Anxiety with Counselling
Unmanaged stress can also increase your risk of heart disease, depression, and obesity, and decreases your cognitive performance. Fortunately, though, unless a tiger is chasing you, the bulk of your stress is your subjective experience and more under your control than you imagine. Well-honed coping strategies can be employed under stressful circumstances to lower your stress levels regardless of what’s happening in your environment, ensuring that the stress you experience is intermittent and not prolonged.
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