Dealing with stress......

It can be stressful at times constantly pouring yourself out into others---and exhausting working with little ones!  Here's a quick checklist  from Suzanne Martin, PT, DPT to help with stressful times---and possibly to avoid them:

To Avoid Stress:

Get up earlier

Organize your calendar

Arrive early for appointments

Anticipate others' time management issues

To Reduce Stress:

Go with the flow

Practice assertive conversation closers

Take warm baths with Epsom salts

Ask yourself:  "How important is it?"  when things come up

To Relieve Stress:

Unwind

Get worries and frustrations off your chest

Exercise (something other than dance!!)

View the entire forest.  Take off the blinders; you know what you are doing

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Suzanne states that it is much healthier to learn to strategize to cope with stress than spend so much energy trying to get rid of it.  Here's to a less stressful 2009!