3 Types of Stress & Strategies to Cope with Them
Some stress and anxiety are part of coping with everyday life. Prolonged stress is hard on our bodies and our mental health, but with support …
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Some stress and anxiety are part of coping with everyday life. Prolonged stress is hard on our bodies and our mental health, but with support …
External boundaries are where we bump up against each other (like setting boundaries around our time or how we allow others to treat us), while internal boundaries are where we bump up against ourselves in ways that bring dissonance between competing desires (like wanting to take on a new project but knowing we can’t don’t have the resources to complete it). In this illustration, I tease out some of the nuances between internal and external boundaries.
When it comes to stress, it’s actually not all bad. There’s actually three categories of stress. Some stress and anxiety are part of coping well …
Although research on protest and despair has traditionally centered on the experiences of infants and young children, humans continue to respond to crisis with protest, despair, (and detachment) throughout our lives. Unlike infants, adults have years of experience that tells us that one method or the other does a better job of getting our needs met or protecting us from further harm, and over time that method becomes our patterned response.
Below is a sketchnote created from the text of an article titled “Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions” by Robin …