- Do you easily get angry?
- Do you get impatient when being help up?
- Do you have difficulty getting to sleep, do not sleep well?
- Are you in conflict with people at home or at work?
- Do you find your work too challenging or not enough?
- Are you worried about your work, your financial responsibilities?
- Are your goals in life unclear?
In our modern daily life, it is almost impossible not to experience stress.
Work, people, situations, events can all cause stress. It wouldn’t be that bad if stress was occasional. The problem really comes when stress is repetitive. The constant flow of stress hormones can have terrible health consequences (higher risk of heart attacks, high blood pressure, inflammatory diseases, IBS, digestion problems). The feeling of helplessness can cause anger and conflicts and add to the initial cause of stress.
So, what’s the solution? Avoid stress altogether? There are so many different causes of stress that it’s hardly possible to avoid it. The solution lies in learning how to manage stress.
Together with my clients we try and understand the real causes of their stress. Stress can come from poor time management, lack of confidence, relationships issues, lack of direction, wrong expectations … Once we know the real causes, we decide on an appropriate response for each of them.
Here are some examples of the work we can do together:
- thinking creatively of new ways to tackle each cause of stress
- setting concrete actions to solve the causes of stress
- learning to say No
- learning relaxation and meditation
- letting go of negative thoughts and limiting beliefs
I also take clients who suffer from panic attacks. Panic attacks are extreme physical reactions to stressful events. The intensity is such that the physical symptoms you experience make you feel you are about to die (pounding heart, chest pain, breathlessness, feeling of chocking, sweatiness, trembling, nausea, chills or hot flushes, numbness or tingling).
An attack passes but what does not pass easily is the fear that it might happen again. Many people then react by putting a stop to their normal activity in a bid to avoid anything that could trigger another attack.
The work I do with my clients who have suffered from panic attacks also includes identifying and tackling causes of stress. On top of that we work on beating the fear of another attack (mainly through NLP exercises) and on progressively resuming a normal life.
