Emotional Well-Being
Every part of our lives plays a role in our well-being: personal growth, relationships, grief and loss, and much more. Getting help for your emotional well-being can vary from a using a single counseling session or a series, to starting an exercise program, to reading a brief article and applying the advice you find there.
Chronic stress symptoms
Keep in mind that chronic stress can be associated with mental conditions like depression and anxiety disorders as well as physical problems. Call LifeSolutions if you are having difficulties with any of these stress symptoms:
- Difficulty sleeping
- Changes in appetite
- Panic attacks
- Muscle tenseness and soreness
- Frequent headaches
- Gastrointestinal problems
- Prolonged feelings of sadness or worthlessness
Check out some quick tips below, or log in to the Work
Life portal with hundreds of articles, assessment tools, and other resources:
- Flight: Avoiding conflict and hoping that it will go away (avoidance)
- Fight: Using authority, rights, or force to attempt to prevail over others (position-based competition)
- Unite: Talking with other people to develop solutions that will satisfy mutual interests and coming to some result with which all the parties involved can live (IBPS)
- Begin with the end in mind. Pick the top three things you want to accomplish in the coming year. Consider such areas as spirit, family, friends, work, health, prosperity, and more.
- From your top three desired accomplishments, choose a goal to achieve in the next three months.
- In order to progress towards that goal, pick an action step related to your goal that you can achieve in the month of January.
- Set a smaller goal related to that action step that you can easily complete during the first week of January and do it.
