{"id":8137,"date":"2020-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/weekly-wellness-blog-managing-things-that-scare-you-fears-stressorsstress-is-stressful\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:19:23","slug":"weekly-wellness-blog-managing-things-that-scare-you-fears-stressorsstress-is-stressful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/weekly-wellness-blog-managing-things-that-scare-you-fears-stressorsstress-is-stressful\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Things that Scare You Fears &#038; Stressors\/Stress IS Stressful!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shelley-blogimage_orig-1.png\" alt=\"Woman sitting at table, stressed\" class=\"wp-image-1999\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are hundreds of blogs and Instagram posts that teach you how to rid your life of stress. The truth is, life<em>\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0stressful, and anxiety can be a natural consequence of life stressors that we face daily. Relationships, work, and parenting can often feel chaotic\u2026pair these already complicated and often overwhelming areas of life with living during a pandemic, it can feel downright unmanageable. Instead of attempting to \u201crid\u201d our lives of stress and anxiety, we must first accept that feeling difficult emotions is a part of life. It\u2019s important to first identify and accept these difficult emotions, in order to create healthy and lasting change in our lives.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>ACCEPT:<\/strong>\u00a0Accepting that stress can be a natural experience during difficult times is a much healthier approach than entirely \u201cridding\u201d our lives of difficult emotions. That\u2019s an impossible task that would feel us leaving forever disappointed. What we resist, persists, and this approach is much more realistic approach that incorporates self-compassion and the acceptance that we aren\u2019t perfect, nor should be. Just because we experience difficulties does not mean we are weak or unprepared. It means we are human and we have the strength and capacity to identify when we are not feeling our best.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>ACT:<\/strong>\u00a0What\u2019s the next step after identifying that difficult emotions are just a part of life? Sit in misery, clouded by stress and anxiety? NO! Asking for help is the biggest sign of strength and self-care. In addition to eating healthy, exercise, maintaining healthy relationships, quality sleep, therapy can be an excellent space to process difficult emotions and learn how to effectively cope with them. It can be so easy to feel \u201cstuck\u201d in a cycle of stress and negativity. We aren\u2019t born instantly knowing how to cope in a modern era of traffic, feeling burnout from work, financial issues, or family drama. A <a href=\"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/finding-the-best-therapist-for-your-stress-anxiety-or-depression\/\">therapist can help you<\/a> identify coping skills and safely process life stressors in order to live more joyfully.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>PRACTICE:\u00a0<\/strong>Therapy isn\u2019t the last stop in creating lasting change. Implementing tools on a\u00a0<em>daily\u00a0<\/em>basis is crucial to <a href=\"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/weekly-wellness-blog-tips-for-dealing-with-stress\/\">managing stress<\/a> and anxiety. When these stressors bubble up to the surface and you feel like you don\u2019t have a grasp, these difficult emotions are free thermometers that tell us we need to be more active in our self-care. Although there\u2019s no \u201ccure\u201d for stress, and it\u2019s impossible to rid our lives entirely of them, it\u2019s possible to take hold of our lives through dedication and practice.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>If you have any questions about the therapeutic process, please reach out! It\u2019s never too late to ask for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are hundreds of blogs and Instagram posts that teach you how to rid your life of stress. The truth is, life\u00a0is\u00a0stressful, and anxiety can be a natural consequence of life stressors that we face daily. Relationships, work, and parenting can often feel chaotic\u2026pair these already complicated and often overwhelming areas of life with living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}