It’s the fourth and final week of Stress Awareness Month. So far, we’ve talked about stress symptoms (Week 1), identifying stressors (Week 2), and reducing stress (Week 3). This week’s focus is probably my most favorite stress topic: Prevention and Avoidance. No, not all stress can be prevented — and we wouldn’t necessarily want that [...]
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April MIC: Week 3 – Reduce the Stress
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged reduce stress, Stress Awareness Month, stress reduction on April 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Having learned to recognize our stress responses in Week 1, and having identified what our stressors are in Week 2, we can start to try to reduce some of those stressors. Several friends and followers have submitted their favorite ways to reduce stress. Do you have some, too? We’d love to include them later this week. [...]
April MIC: Week 1 – Share Your Stress Symptoms
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged chronic stress, Stress Awareness Month, stress symptoms, stressors on April 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
April’s Monthly Impact Challenge has us recognizing Stress Awareness Week. Throughout the month, we’ll work toward better awareness of stress, the impact it has, and find ways to prevent or reduce it. Each week we’ll post information and exercises. We invite you to participate by reading, posting your thoughts and taking the weekly quizzes. At [...]
April MIC: Stress Awareness Month
Posted in Diseases, Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged lowering stress, Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, stress reduction on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
NOTE: somehow my index finger hit that “publish” button prematurely. Rather than go back and delete it, I’m publishing tomorrow’s April 1st (no joke) blog today. We’d like everyone who’s never stressed out, to jump up and shout out, “Hurrah!!” … … … … Hello? … Anyone there? April’s Monthly Impact Challenge will be in [...]


