How to Stay Stress Free
The Art of Cultivating Calm
Do you feel like it's hard to manage the stress of it all? If you're like so many of our high-achieving type-A life coaching and therapy clients here at Growing Self, you probably have days when you're feeling spread thin. Let's face it: Staying on top of everything is a lot! Between managing a high-impact career, running a household, staying on top of laundry, groceries, personal projects, having a high quality relationship with your partner, and perhaps a kid or three PLUS finding time to self care, take occasional showers, and maintain your friendships… whew! We're all going in a thousand different directions, and it can feel extremely stressful. The idea that you stay stress free sounds like an unattainable dream.
This is especially true when you feel, like so many people do, that you're struggling to stay on top of it all. When we become overly busy, things start to slip! When you're rushed, it's hard to stay organized. When you're going a zillion miles an hour, you start to forget things, lose things, and feel less and less organized. That leads to feeling even more stressed and out of control, and then it's even harder to keep up. It's a downward spiral of stress, mess, and panic. Not a sustainable way to live!
How To Stay Stress Free (Really!)
So… how do you get off the hamster wheel of modern life and stay stress free? How do you begin to get yourself organized and back in control? Most importantly, how do you create a sustainable system that allows you to not just do the things that you need to do but manage your life in such a way that you don't constantly feel like a frantic stress-ball?
My guest on this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast, Marilyn Paul, PhD, is here to show us how. Dr. Paul has been on the faculty of Yale Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital School, and is the author of “It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Shoes” as well as “An Oasis of Time: How a Day of Rest Can Save Your Life.” Dr. Paul is an expert in time management and personal organization by professional training… but she's also a fellow traveler with powerful stories about the life lessons she's learned as someone who has also struggled to keep up with it all.
If you have days when you feel like you're drowning, I hope you listen to this conversation. (And yes, totally okay if you're listening to this while you're multi-tasking ten other things at the same time: I get it!) But you'll be glad if you can fit this in to your day: Dr. Paul shares so many insights and tips, and compassionate, empowering ideas that you can use ASAP to cultivate calm and order in your life, so that you can feel genuinely stress free from the inside out.
Your partner in growth,
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby is the founder and clinical director of Growing Self Counseling and Coaching. She's the author of “Exaholics: Breaking Your Addiction to Your Ex Love,” and the host of The Love, Happiness & Success Podcast.
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