Stress Levels

[Amberlilly55]

Do any of you ladies have any tips to try to keep your stress levels down? I am a worrier and a planner and sometimes I stress out really easily. I am looking for some tips so that if I start to stress out at some point during the day I can just stop myself and kind of reset. Any suggestions?

I am pretty realistic and I know that I will never be completely stress free since I am a mom to three crazy little boys I do know that there has to be little things that I can do to help bring the stress and testosterone down. I just need to find them!

Just a little side note...I was super stressed tonight when my 4 year old suddenly started throwing up in the check out line at walmart. Poor little guy is so pitiful. I felt so so awful for the poor women that had to clean it up.

[rainbowflower]

counting to 10

but also do things that you enjoy and that make you switch off - reading a good book, sewing a birth sampler (for new baby WHEN you get them!), going for walks in the countryside, yoga

I wouldn't really stress about being stressed, though. I don't think stress and testosterone are so closely linked... and studies show that stress can even sway pink
Stressed women 'are more likely to have a baby girl' | Mail Online

[PolishPrincess]

All I know is my most a-type friend had two girls before she had a son so I am not stressing about stress- and sorry to hear about the stomach bug lady we had it here over the weekend too. Health to your family and try to stay relaxed!!!

[atomic sagebrush]

I always try to remind myself that once I've made a plan, thinking about it again and again will not help anything. The otehr thing that helps me it to think through the worst case scenario of whatever it is I'm dwelling on and usually it's very unlikely, then the next worst thing is also very unlikely, etc. By the time I get to the things that are actually likely to happen, it's like this long chain of superunlikely events and then I realize that

Example - i used to worry about someone breaking in at night while I was asleep, to the point I couldn't sleep at night when my husband was working.. But I realized that ok, the worst thing that could happen is, someone does try to break in - first he'd have to WANT to break in our house as opposed to everyone else's, be able to get in thru locked doors and without detection by the neighbors, I'd have to sleep thru the whole thing and be totally unable to call for help, even if he did get in he'd have to want to hurt us rather than just rob us, and even if all those very unlikely things happened, even then the odds that it would happen on any given day, such as today instead of 10 years from now, were microscopic. So I could either spend my life consumed with fear every night over something that was super unlikely to happen on any one particular day, or else take sensible precautions and save that worry for when I actually heard someone coming in the door when and if such a day ever came. Slept like a baby ever since.