Can you use Stressful times to grow?
“I have been feeling GREAT! We are super busy at the office and this is my best year yet! My smile is real!!! I am more patient, understanding, listen better, calm and just feeling like I am becoming the business woman I have always wanted to be. My stress meter is so down it is incredible.”
This was such a great email to get from a client!
Just months before she had been feeling frazzled and anxious much of the time. The way she was dealing with stress was negatively affecting her health, her relationships and her work. In our coaching she discovered how to implement new perspectives and strategies to deal effectively with the challenges of her personal life and business.
For many years I taught stress reduction workshops in hospitals, businesses and schools.
Today I focus more on how we can use stressful times to become stronger, and more resilient, courageous and compassionate
Current research supports the importance of embracing and transforming stress. As Kelly McGonigal writes in The Upside of Stress, “…the latest science reveals that stress can make you smarter, stronger, and more successful. It helps you learn and grow. It can even inspire courage and compassion.”
If you are committed to growing, learning and expanding into your potential feelings of stress will probably come up. If you have goals and dreams that deeply matter to you, feelings of stress will probably come up- maybe many times every day. That’s OK.
How you think about stress, how you deal with it and how you process it in your body makes all the difference between it being a destructive force or a source of energy and inspiration.
Another client told me last week that the phrase she uses now in challenging times is, “ I’m growing with it!”
What are you growing with right now?
How are you talking with yourself about that process?
Believing in you,
Lea
PS Would you like support in meeting every challenge with courage, confidence and compassion with every challenge? Click here to apply for a complimentary 1:1 Breakthrough Session with me. You’ll get crystal clear on what you really want, what’s in the way and your next steps toward creating your most soul-satisfying success.
