Stress is not a mental illness. People who are "stressed out" are not crazy, they are just stuck in a rut. They need help managing their stress so they can get unstuck and start making progress towards meeting their goals and fulfilling their dreams.
My unique approach to stress coaching is based on my Five R's of Coping Model that teaches you five different levels of coping skills. Although each of the "Rs" can be used independently to cope with stressors, they work best when combined together into a personal stress management program. My untimate goal for working with clients is developing that plan together.
My approach takes a minimum of seven sessions. Each session revolves around teaching you how to integrate the Five R's of Coping model into your lifetsyle. I will teach you how to build a stress management plan that revolves around your personality, your stressors, and your lifestyle. to manage your stress.
The Five R's are: Reorganize, Relax, Release, Rethink, and Reduce.
Reorganize - teaches you how to create a healthy, more stress-resistant lifestyle based on hardy health habits. These habits provide the energy and resilience you need to cope with stress in a changing world.
Relax - teaches you how to achieve true relaxation using proven, easy-to-learn techniques (diaphragmatic breathing, breath meditation, visualization, mindfulness etc.) that you can practice anywhere. You'll learn how to short-circuit the stress response by putting your body into a relaxed state on a regular basis.
Release - teaches you how to use physical activity and exercise to release stress-related energy and tension in a healthy way instead of relying on alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.
Rethink - teaches you how to defuse potential stressors by (1) changing the way you think about some of them and, (2) learning how to accept others. Rethink uses the latest principles and practices from ACT, mindfulness, and Naikan self-reflection.
Reduce - teaches you how to cut back on the overall level of stressors in your life and turn the rest of your potential stressors into challenges.
| Week 1: Assess & Reorganize
- Assess the nature and extent of your personal stress
- Set personal stress management goals
- Learn more about your stress and use of time through journaling
- Reorganize your physical well-being
Week 2: Relax & Reorganize
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Relax through diaphragmatic breathing, meditation, visualization, and autogenic training
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Reorganize your environmental well-being
Week 3: Relax, Release, & Reorganize
- Relax through systematic muscle relaxation and mindful walking
- Release stress through cathartic activities
- Reorganize your occupational well-being
Week 4: Rethink & Reorganize
- Rethink the big picture (your overall world view) of your life
- Set clear life goals and measurable objectives based on your values
- Reorganize your emotional well-being
Week 5: Rethink & Reorganize
- Rethink the little picture (your perception of individual stressors) using ACT, Mindfulness, REBT and other techniques
- Reorganize your intellectual well-being
Week 6: Reduce & Reorganize
- Find your optimal level of demand
- Reduce unwanted stressors
- Learn proven time management techniques
- Learn assertiveness training techniques
- Reorganize your social well-being
Week 7: Reassess & Reorganize
- Reassess you stressors and use of time
- Reorganize your spiritual well being
- Develop your Personal Stress Management Plan
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