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Stress Management
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Understanding Your Response to Stress

Recognizing the symptoms of stress in your life is one step toward managing it. This assessment will help you learn your particular stress symptoms.

Stress Trigger Assessment

Too much stress can affect both your emotional and physical health. This assessment will help you identify your life "stressors."

Responding Better to Stress
Coping With Major Life Changes

Most people going through major life transitions can expect to feel varying levels of anxiety, stress, confusion and possibly self-doubt.

It's Time to Think Positive

Thinking positive is a choice. It's a decision to appreciate the roses in your life, while letting go of the thorns.

Don't Let Anxiety Control Your Life

Anxiety can appear in different forms and at different levels of intensity. It can range in severity from a mere twinge of uneasiness to a full-blown panic attack.

Understanding the Stress/Health Connection

During stressful times, your body produces various chemicals, including cortisol, an immune-suppressing hormone. The more cortisol produced, the weaker your immune cells become and the more susceptible you are to illness.

5-Minute Stress Solutions

By consciously learning to be present and mindful, you can transform your inattention to attention and your stress into solutions.

Change Your Life, Reduce Your Stress

Here are proactive steps you can take to prevent the toll stress takes on your life.

For Older Adults: Address Your Stress

Some stress is inevitable, but as you grow older, the key is to minimize stress while maximizing happiness and enjoyment.

Help for Tension Headaches

Almost everyone has a tension headache from time to time. These headaches aren’t caused by disease. They are so common they are considered to be “normal” headaches.