Creating Stress Free Living

By M.L. Devitt

Stress has become an increasing problem in today's volatile global economy. Do you feel stressed on an ongoing?

This book offers you the opportunity to reflect on and learn how to identify your stress triggers. You will learn how to address your stress before it snow balls out of control. You will also learn how to create helpful and effective stress reduction strategies and techniques. These will enable you to finally and confidently step out of your stress zone.

There are clear steps to enable you to gain greater personal awareness around your own ability and capacity to deal with stress.

The book will encourage you to begin identifying ways to develop your awareness around your own stress. You will gain a heightened awareness of your own individual stress triggers and appropriate techniques and strategies to effectively address your feelings of stress.

Finally, the book encourages and supports you in developing a proactive approach to stress reduction. The book supports you in creating daily habits to help alleviate daily stress levels.

I hope, by reading and using this book, you will discover your own clear and easy steps to addressing your stress, and live happier and healthier with little or no stress.

Remember:
"You are the creator of your own stress free destiny."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Oct 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465303998

M.L. Devitt

Marie Louise Devitt is a Counsellor and Life Coach. She is married and a mother to three energetic boys. She has a background in Psychology, has completed post graduate training as a counsellor and has worked in a broad range of mental health settings. These include an Occupational Department within the NHS in Trafford and in a Family Counselling Centre also in Trafford. She now works in private practice in south west London. She also plans to undertake additional study, in particular MSc in Mental Health Studies at a prominent London University. She works, therapeutically, with a broad range of clients and deals with a broad range of client issues on a daily basis. These include depression, bereavement, relationship breakdown, work stress and low self esteem. The idea for this book came from the issues she would see come up regularly with her clients. The book also grew from her hope that the book would be helpful in supporting people who experience feelings of stress and could use some simple straight forward rules to addressing their stress.

Book preview

Creating

Stress Free

Living

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Successful and Effective Strategies for

Reducing Ongoing Stress

Step Out of Your Stress Zone

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Copyright © 2011 by M.L. Devitt.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011913573

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Rev. date: 07/05/2013

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

BE PROACTIVE ABOUT YOUR STRESS LEVELS

STRESSFUL SITUATIONS

YOUR STRESS SUPPORT SYSTEM

STRESS AWARENESS

STRESSED OR NOT STRESSED

BE BRAVE

TIME OUT!

OPENESS AND ACCEPTANCE

JOY IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

FRIENDSHIP MATTERS

THE JOY OF LAUGHTER

SETTING HEALTHY BOUNDARIES

PUTTING LOVE IN YOUR LIFE

YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

THE RIPPLE EFFECT

CHANGE

EMBRACE THE JOY OF LIFE

BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER

CHANGE AS AN OPPORTUNITY

EMBRACE CHANGE

BODY AND SOUL

QUIET TIME… .

REACH FOR YOUR TRANQUILITY

MEDITATION

RELAXATION

TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY—

TAKE CARE OF YOUR SOUL

RE-ENERGISE

CHILL OUT TIME

SELF CARE IS A NECESSITY NOT A LUXURY

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

TAKING CARE OF YOU

HEALTH AND FITNESS

HEALTHY LIVING

TAKING CARE OF YOU

YOUR STRESSED OUT SUPPORT SYSTEM

PERSONAL POWER

KNOWLEDGE IS KEY

EMBRACING LOVE

HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITY

YOU ARE SPECIAL

DONT BE AFRAID TO SUPPORT YOURSELF

BE YOUR OWN BEST SUPPORTER

SECURITY AND CONFIDENCE

NURTURING AND CARING FOR YOU

AVOID THOSE EXCUSES!

HEALTHY LIVING

WHAT ARE YOUR DREAMS?

WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?

CARRYING TOO MUCH RIGHT NOW?

IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

WITH STILLNESS COMES CLARITY

EMBRACE YOUR EMOTIONS

EMBRACE YOUR INNER CHILD

INTRODUCTION

This is a workbook: you will get more out of it if you put more into it. So, before you dive into the book, read through the following questions and consider them for a while.

Writing in your answers is optional. If you would prefer just to consider your answers