Dee74

Stress is a common problem for most people - for alcoholics and addicts it's a common trigger point.

Learning to deal with stress clean and sober is challenging but with a few ideas, we can make it easier on ourselves

Here are some of my favourite links for healthy and positive tips for dealing with stress

Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress

Mayo Mindfulness: Try the 4 A’s for stress relief
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-mindfulness-try-the-4-as-for-stress-relief/#:~:text=Expand%20your%20stress%20management%20too lkit,our%20journey%20through%20life%20difficult.

Ten stress busters - Stress, anxiety and depression - NHS Choices

How to Deal with Stress
https://medicine.yale.edu/stresscenter/reduction/how%20to%20deal%20with%20stress%20updated_404711_4 6027_v1.pdf

and it might help sometimes to reframe our ideas on stress?
Stress may not be fun but it can help


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Hevyn

This is really going to help me Dee! Thanks so much.

GroundhogDay

Thank you, Dee! I've got avoidance down cold, but am currently working on "change how I see the situation."

least

Thank you for all the help you give.

Fly N Buy

I see that under the link the 4 ways to deal with stress, it takes us to the American Heart Association a well recognized, well funded and highly respected organization.

Under two of the four parts of their outline in handling stress is meditation. I will say I consider myself very much a beginner at mediation, but the affects are indeed remarkable - I would venture to guess mediation is a common thread for many here on SR.

For those who have not tried mediation, you don't have to be expert by any means to gain many benefits.

Great thread Dee - thanks!

Quirky

Thank you Dee; this is very helpful.

FreeOwl

Definitely!!!

Stress is part of life.... It comes in both positive and negative forms. For many years my response to stress was to try and ignore it until I needed to blot it out or blow it out.... That was usually done with ridiculous amounts of booze and drugs.

Thanks for sharing these!

Dee74

do you mean positive stress as in 'eustress' FreeOwl?

2 Different Kinds of Stress Which Can Make-or-Break a Person

Thanks - that led me into areas I'd forgotten about

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Placebo

Thank you very much Dee.

Bookmarked.

Soberwolf

Exellent help from a exellent man this should be incorporated into the making a plan sticky

PurpleKnight

Great post Dee!!

Soberwolf

Bump its that good of a thread

Spacegoat

I had a glance at this last night, and woke up this morning thinking about it.

I was stressed this morning even thinking about it. I have avoidance nailed.

Stress has definitely turned me to drink and therefore to wrong in the past.

Anna

Thanks Dee, there are good ideas here.

newinrecovery

Thanks Dee

Kris47

Thanks, Dee.

Soberwolf

Bump

Angie247

Thank you very much, Dee.

trachemys

Stress is merely the wind of life. It's not something to fear or avoid. It's just something that IS.

Dee74

I think it's like any thing for guys like us Trach - too much of anything can be self destructive.

I still have a lot of ups and downs in my life & things out of my control, but I'm nowhere near as stressed as I used to be.

that's got to be a good thing to aim for, surely?

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