Stress Mangement Coaching

If your life is impacted by excessive stress, please read on.

According to the Health and Safety Executive, work related pressure, anxiety or depression accounts for over half of all working days lost to ill health in Britain. Most of this was attributed to workload.

I read somewhere recently that stress is unavoidable unless you live under a rock and avoid contact with other people!

Coping mechanisms often include excessive drinking and eating. These are passive activities that actually increase stress after a temporary and short release of dopamine, a pleasure chemical.

The best antidote to stress, the healthy way, is to take action. Your brain is probably exhausted so taking a holiday, even a staycation where you have a proper break from work technology including a mobile phone, is a good start.

Another good move is to get some support from a qualified professional.

Here at West of England Coaching and Counselling we use tools from psychology including solutions focused coaching and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to help you to manage your stress well. The process starts by asking you more meaningful questions about what you do want and progresses by enabling you to make choices and changes that you feel able to do in achievable baby steps.

A key part of the process is to equip you with tools to help you to achieve the state you want such as calm, very quickly, when you are feeling stressed.

In the meantime try this which works for one of my clients. Set your phone to play something amusing every hour to get up and stretch your legs. You can of course silence it when you are at a long meeting!

If you would like help with stress management please get in touch via enquiries@westofenglandcoachingandcounselling or by calling 01761 237400.