Stress Relief and Self-Care:Need Stress Relief? Try Baking.

Let’s continue on with our series on stress relief and self-care. Today let’s take a look at Baking and Stress Relief. So how can baking reduce your stress, you may ask?  According to a site called Teeo Creations, baking is a form of comfort and also a distraction from our stress.  This distraction from whatever is…

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Stress Relief-Feeling Stressed-Give Reading A Try!

Life can be stressful; there is no doubt about that. I have started to look at ways to help us decrease our stress. Here is a stress relief method that I love…Reading! I began a series on stress relief because of the stress I endured with my divorce. There are countless ways to decrease our…

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Need Stress Relief? Try Chocolate and Add Meditation.

Let’s continue on our stress relief journey today.  I found an article several years ago called Karen Carnabucci’s GPS Guide On Relieving Stress. One of the first things in this list of 100 ways to relieve stress is “Chocolate Meditation.”  I found instructions on how to meditate with chocolate on Psychology Today. This should be fun. Stress…

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Stress Relief/Taking Care of You Ways to Decrease Stress-The Plan

I started a series several years ago called Stress Relief. I want to include Self Care in this series because in taking care of ourselves, I believe that we can decrease our stress, at least for a moment.   Here is a quote that I found…“The Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale indicates that divorce is the second…

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Stress Relief and The Sounds of Nature

As I was reading about stress relief activities today I came across one suggestion I thought I would try.  Listening to the sounds of nature.  In my reading, I found that listening to nature can induce relaxation, reduce negative feelings, and increase pleasant feelings.  One site it was said listening to the sounds of nature…

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