Free Help for Stress
Follow these steps using our free help for stress downloads to reduce and manage your stress.
Step One
Take the stress quiz to discover your stress level and to have a baseline to begin your stress management program.
Step Two
Download and complete the Stress Worksheet
This worksheet will help you understand the causes of your stress, identify your stress symptoms and develop coping strategies. Download our Stress Relief Tips for some coping strategy ideas. We recommend that you choose at least three of these tips to follow over the next few weeks.
Step Three
Start to notice what you feel in your body when something stressful happens. Does your heart rate increase? Is your breathing shallow (up in the high chest) and fast? Do you feel tension around your shoulders, neck and chest? Do you get red in the face? Once you’ve identified the symptoms of your stress response, you can begin using techniques to relieve your stress.
Step Four
Download the Stress Relief Techniques for Adults
Find one or two Instant StressBusters that work for you and practice them each time you catch yourself having a stress response. You’ll know if the technique is working if your physical symptoms lessen. Your breathing will become deeper and slower. You won’t feel your heart beating fast. Your shoulders will relax and the tension will begin draining. Celebrate each time you’re able to interrupt a stress response. You’re increasing your well-being, your performance and mental clarity!
Step Five
Notice on the Stress Relief Techniques for Adults PDF that there are Techniques to Help Stress from Becoming Chronic.
You’ll want to start using at least one of these techniques on a regular basis to continue building your stress hardiness. Stress hardiness increases over time so that stressors that used to deeply affect you no longer do so. Through practice of methods that promote stress hardiness, you can move out of a state of chronic stress. Over time, you’ll become a pro at controlling your emotional reactions and people will begin asking you how you’re able to stay so calm.
Step Six
A month after beginning your self-directed stress management program, retake the Stress Inventory and compare the results. Has your stress score been reduced? Great! If not, then you may need more help, especially if your results suggest that your stress is chronic. Be honest with yourself: have you practiced the techniques regularly and followed the tips? If not, you may need some help getting motivated. That’s where a stress coach or counselor can help. We’re happy to spend a half hour with you, free of charge, to discuss your options.
Additional Free Help
Children: It’s never too early to start teaching your children how to manage their emotional reactions. Download our Stress Relief Techniques for Children and practice them with your child. They can be fun bonding experiences, too.
Caregivers: The stresses of caring for an elderly parent or spouse take their toll on the caregiver’s health and vitality. Download the Understanding Care e-book to learn ways to stay healthy and minimize the stress of care giving for a loved one.
Stress and Eating: One of the symptoms of chronic stress is eating on the run or gulping down a meal because you feel time pressured. Learn how to make eating a stress reduction technique. Download Mindful vs. mindless eating.
Environmental Stress: Times are hard these days – economically and globally. Learn ways to weather the storm with the De-stress Kit e-book.
