Sunday, July 5, 2009

Helping you overcome stressful people and situations

Do you want better tools to manage and reduce the stress and anxiety in your life?

• Do you feel tired, distracted, and unable to concentrate?

• Are you constantly tense, worried, or on edge?

• Does your stress and anxiety interfere with your work, school, or family?

• Do you lie awake at night with your thoughts racing and find that you are unable to sleep?

Are difficult people cause you stress or keeping you from achieving your goals?

• Does the thought of upsetting someone cause you to feel anxious?

• Do you feel guilty for saying "no" to this person, or not going along with what they want?

• Does it feel like you are walking on eggshells when you are around this person?

• Do you seek this person's approval yet feel as if you always fall short?

Are you a people pleaser, so focused on the happiness of others that you are unfulfilled and unhappy?

• Do you have the tendency to put others before yourself?

• Do you feel guilty when you do something just for you?

• Do you constantly think negative things about yourself? For example: "I'm stupid or ugly, or I should have done that better"

• Do you see only the negatives and tend to dwell on them? For example: "If I don't succeed at this, I'm a failure."

• Are you unable to accept praise when you have done something well? For example: "My colleagues said I did a good job on that presentation, but they were just trying to be nice."