Kick Stress's Ass With Gloves Off Stress Management

Stress Is Hurting You

The world places ever-increasing demands on our time, energy, and attention. It's only too easy to become harried and overwhelmed.

Unchecked, stress will not only upset us, it will impair our functioning, and either exacerbate existing health problems or create new ones.

Living A Happy, Productive, Fulfilling Life
Requires Coping With Stress Well

This website is designed to help you learn to understand and recognize stress, and to learn both short and long term approaches to managing and even eliminating the stress in your life.

Some of these approaches are about immediate, temporary relief from stress.

Others are about making lasting changes in the ways you perceive and respond to potentially stressful themes and situations.

Fighting stress with a one-two punch will be the most effective way to greatly (and permanently!) reduce your overall level of stress and live a more serene and joyful life.

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Fight Back With Effective Stress Management

Here, you will find information about what stress is and its symptoms and manifestations.

There's information and instruction on how to change your perception and response to issues and situations you find stressful, by developing a fight plan and making lasting changes in yourself and the way you do things.

As this website grows, we'll go deeper, and reflect on the positive aspects of stress (yes, there are positive aspects!)

Then, we'll consider the kind of relationship we want to cultivate with stress: is it an adversary to be defeated, or a sparring partner who forces us to learn and grow? Do we want to destroy it or just keep it in check?

Finally, we'll try to approach all of this material, some of it daunting, with compassion and humor, because we don't want to get stressed out about managing stress if we can help it!

Coming Soon:

Types of stress -- acute, chronic, and trauma-related
Parenting stress
Exercise and stress reduction

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Stay With It

Keep in mind that each person's ideal approach to stress management is different. Some of the ideas on this website will appeal to and work for you; some won't. One size does not fit all. Don't worry if you try something and it doesn't work. Something else will. If you remain open-minded and loose, you will find your answers. You may even develop your own spin on stress management that will help others. So stick with it. Don't give up. This fight is one you can win.