Introduction to stress (mental health 101)

Stress is a normal reaction to stressful situations. Most of us feel stressed on a day to day basis, and stress isn't all bad. Stress can help motivate you to tackle big challenges and push your limits. To get the most out of stress, however, it's important to learn how to manage stress levels effectively.

Managing stress

Chronic stress, however, can harm us. When stress hits, it can lead to muscle tension (leading to pain), high blood pressure, and leaves us feeling burned out and feeling overwhelmed. In long run, such chronic stress leads to physical health problems. People do try to help themselves reduce stress. But in absence of proper guidance, many ends up drinking alcohol to deal with stress which further harms their body. There are people on the other end of the spectrum who have tried everything they read about stress relievers from belly breathing, progressive muscle relaxation techniques, getting a good night's sleep, deep breathing exercises or simply deep breath, avoid unhealthy habits, relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, mindfulness meditation, healthy diet or balanced diet, physical activity or exercise regularly, stress ball, time management skills, positive attitude, tai chi to avoid stress or to de stress themselves. Research suggests that all these healthy ways of reducing stress does helps us lower stress to an extent, decrease stress hormones, switch off the fight or flight response, helps in disease prevention, and relieve stress. But with little ability to stick to them or they still feel something is missing. And they are right. There's a lot more to the science of managing long term stress.

The stress management course

"The 5-Part Stress-Reduction Program for the Overwhelmed" is a step-by-step guide to help you build resilience and become more stress resilient. It consists of a practical and easy-to-follow framework for stress management and is designed for people who are excessively stressed in their day to day life and wish to find a way out of it.

The goal of this course is to help you with stress management using different stress relief methods.

The course will teach you methods that have been proven to build resilience and strengthen your emotional health. With these practical tools and techniques, you'll be equipped with everything necessary to handle both stressors in life and in business as well as maximize opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Building resilience means building 2 key things:

1. The ability to minimise the effect of stress OR to be able to reverse its effects faster.

2. Channelling the headspace and energy (now no longer held hostage by stress) into the opportunity to thrive.

Doing "1" alone will help you move from Not OK to OK

Doing "2" as well will set down the conditions for you to flourish (why free up all that time and energy just to spend it on other people's psychodramas instead of your own goals!?)

About the Instructor:

This course on stress management was taught by Dr Audrey Tang. Dr. Audrey is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), and award-winning author - "The Leader's Guide to Resilience" 2021 (prev. The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness" (Pearson & FT, 2018) and "Be A Great Manager - Now" (Pearson, 2016)) with a focus on practical self improvement. She hosts podcast 'Retrain Your Brain for Success', The Wellbeing Lounge on NLiveRadio, and "Psych Back to Basics" for DisruptiveTV. She's the resident psychologist on Channel 4's "Don't Diet Lose Weight", and The Chrissy B Show (Sky) the UK's only TV programme dedicated to mental health and wellbeing. She offers expert comment as a psychologist spokesperson through TV, Radio and published media and speaks at National and International conferences in the fields of resilience, leadership and team cohesion. Audrey is a qualified teacher (QTS), CPD accredited trainer, Leadership Development coach (ICF), and FIRO-B profiler, and regularly delivers webinars & lectures offering accessible and effective tools for personal and professional success.

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Disclaimers:

Please note that Dr Audrey Tang is not a medical professional. She is a Chartered Psychologist (with a Ph.D. degree). As one of our instructor, she is not providing healthcare, or medical services or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any physical, mental, or emotional issue. The information she provided on this course is for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute professional medical advice, diagnoses, or treatment. Always seek advice from your physician or other qualified healthcare provider before undertaking a new health/stress management regimen. Do not disregard medical advice or delay seeking medical advice because of information you read on this course. Do not start or stop any medications without speaking to your medical or mental healthcare provider. Please note that we (BehaviourGuide and Dr Audrey Tang) can’t take any responsibility for the results of your actions, and any harm or damage you suffer as a result of the use, or non-use of the information available in this course. Please use judgment and conduct due diligence before taking any action or implementing any plan or practice suggested or recommended in this course. Please note that we also don’t make any guarantees about the results of the information applied in this course. We share educational and informational resources that are intended to help you succeed in managing your stress. You nevertheless need to know that your ultimate success or failure will be the result of your own efforts, your particular situation, and innumerable other circumstances beyond my knowledge and control.