There are 3 important building blocks of stress management: 1) regulate you stress level, se techniques in earlier post 2) handle stress sources and 3) use stress management habits. The second building block, handle your stress sources, is about 2 main components: 1) secure sufficient recovery 2) minimize stress sources or their intensity as well…
This post continues on what to do during the worry hour, more specifically identifying if your thoughts are productive and/or unproductive, which was introduced in earlier posts. During the worry hour, write down for every theme what is the theme, what the disturbing thought, the what if… and the result/catastrophe that you fear, if it…
Last week I introduced the timeline, a tool that per ce can bring much clarity to why you feel the way you do, why you are where you are today as well as what has to change to get back what you miss. This week we will work on it some more. This since it…
Sunday – time for celebration, rest and peaceful self-supportive reflection. Another way of enhancing your reflections, which you then can use in honouring yourself, but also in planning what you would like to change in your life, is analysing critical or important incidents. This exercise, which is adapted from Hatcher 1996, focuses on analysing an…