Stress is your body’s first way to warn you that you need to take care of yourself. It can be seen in two ways:

• Physical: you will notice yourself feeling more tired, having body pains, stiff shoulders and stiff neck or even headaches.
• Emotional: Mood swings are often seen when someone starts to feel stressed. Anger is a common side effect of someone going through stress as it is a way for your body to release the negative buildup of feelings inside. 

• Smoking
• Drinking too much
• over eating or under eating
• social isolation
• taking drugs to relax
• procrastination of things that are important
• sleeping 
• trying to keep yourself “too busy”
• Angry outbursts

Life coaching allows you to start focusing on the following things:

• What are the stressors in your life?
• What are your current strategies to overcome the stress? What has worked and what has not?
• Learning to avoid unnecessary stress. 
• Learning to alter the situation by being more assertive, managing your time better, and compromising. 
• Accepting that certain things cannot change. 
• Living a healthier lifestyle. 

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: CBT is the only proven (researched) counseling approach to have a lasting impact on empowering people to overcome anxiety; CBT helps rewire the brain to be more balanced in rational thinking and proactive behavior.
  • Mindfulness Meditation: As part of coaching with me, we will do a mindfulness exercise for 15 minutes to teach you the true way of calming yourself down under stressful situations.
  • Life Coaching Sessions: These sessions are utilized in conjunction with CBT to build new thought patterns and instill the confidence you need within you.