Dealing with stress and confronting different situations requires flexibility in your thoughts and emotions. This resiliency is captured best in the Serenity Prayer.
To provide a full spectrum of resources for those living with addiction or mental health conditions and their loved ones, The Recovery Village created several video series about addiction, co-occurring disorders and recovery.
Dealing with stress and confronting different situations requires flexibility in your thoughts and emotions. This resiliency is captured best in the Serenity Prayer.
Your moral compass can provide you with strength in challenging situations. This involves identifying your core values and being honest with yourself.
Stress isn’t always bad. Stress can push us to succeed in different ways of our lives, if you learn how to harness it.
While worrying is normal, healthy living requires being able to let go of needless worries. This guide explores specific strategies, such as examining the costs versus benefits of worrying.
CBT uses a “cognitive triad” to help you identify thoughts that might be part of your depression. You can learn to dispute those thoughts in the triad.
Negative thinking and distortions can contribute to depression. Challenging these is an important part of cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT.
CBT is a way to understand your thoughts and feelings, and learn how to identify thinking distortions and dispute them to improve your anxiety symptoms.
Stress management can help you deal more effectively with the stress throughout daily life. It can also prevent chronic stress.
Identifying stress triggers and signals can help you proactively start using your personalized coping mechanisms. Some examples are highlighted in this guide.
Avoidance of anxiety triggers is something you can work through with CBT. This guide explores how you can stop avoiding things that create anxiety in gradual steps.
Balance helps us reduce stress and build resilience. Balancing your nutrition, exercise, sleep, social connections and restful activities can help reduce your relapse risk.
It’s not possible to entirely avoid stress in daily life. What is possible is to learn to identify it and work through it with healthy coping strategies to prevent relapse.