What If Reducing Stress Was Easy?

Tara Wilken
4 min readApr 1, 2021

I’m sure you’re waiting for the punchline…

Women in a sunflower feild
Photo by Antonino Visalli on Unsplash

But……What if it was true instead?

What if it really was easy to reduce your stress?

We make it complicated, compounded, and we wear our stress like a badge of honor.

Culturally, we silently say: “Look at how stressed I am and I’m still functioning, why aren’t you”

Guilt, unworthiness and fear could all be wrapped up in your stress too.

Making it even harder to prioritize dealing with your stress to improve your well-being.

We push it off and say,

“It will get better, I just need to get through “item A”

becomes…

“It will get better I just need to get through “item B”

becomes…

“It will get better I just need to get through “item C”

Do you see a pattern emerging?

The truth is until you decide to break the pattern it will keep repeating.

One of the easiest ways to start dealing with your stress is to understand where and how stressed you are.

So let’s find out where you currently have the most stress. You may think you know and you might. Or you might be surprised.

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Tara Wilken

Well-Being Curator. Empowering high achievers with easy, practical self-care resources. So you can spend time with people who matter. https://www.tarawilken.com