This week is Stress Awareness Week and it’s time to talk… Here at Vie Aesthetics we promote celebrating the beauty of life, that includes a totally holistic approach to 360º wellness including weight management, nutrition and life coaching services. To help prompt more conversation about the many ways that stress can impact our lives and how we can handle it, our Life Coach Anna Kesanli offers her insight and advice when it comes to feeling stressed.
Stress has a powerful impact on various aspects of your life—not only can it affect your mood, energy level, relationships, and work performance, stress can also cause and exacerbate a wide variety of health conditions. Acknowledging that you feel stressed and taking action to cope with it is the only way to live cohesively alongside moments of stress. Becoming aware of our emotions and behaviours requires a lot of effort but once accomplished it allows us to accept that feeling and that’s when we are ready to take action to tackle it.
Stress is our body’s natural response to feeling pressure or not being able to cope. Stress is not age related, as children, teens and adults can experience it.
Why do we need to talk about Stress?
Although being a natural response, stress can be detrimental by affecting our personal and interpersonal lives. Our energy level, mood, motivation, performance and relationships can be affected when stress is not acknowledged.
Over the years, people have become accustomed to living with stress by normalising it in their work and personal life. Some people believe that if they are not feeling the symtoms of stress, they are doing something wrong.
The signs and the negative effects of stress are both psychological and physiological:
Mood changes are also very common, the following signs could also be observed:
Our bodies experience the same chemical reactions from stress both in positive and negative circumstances, what changes is the longevity of that response and our mentality towards it. Chronic stress should always be addressed by a professional through counselling or psychotherapy.
All of the above accentuate the importance of acknowledging and developing coping strategies for stress.
There are many ways to help yourself and others to cope with stress in their everyday lives.
Whether you’re feeling stress or not, being informed on the topic of Stress can help you prepare for moments that may be overwhelming in your life. And hopefully increase your understanding of what is actually a very normal and very useful response. It is how we react to this feeling that can produce it’s positive or negative effects – and harnessing that chosen reaction is a hard but ultimately wonderful skills to learn.
The team at Vie Aesthetics are always happy to take your calls, we are here for each and everyone of our clients, new and existing. Our clinic doors are always open for you to pop in for a chat with the team or a coffee if you feel like you need a little pick-me-up.
Be kind to yourself.
With Love,
The Vie Team
