Dealing With Stress by Learning to Give Up Control of the Uncontrollable

I had a revelation the other day.  Ok, maybe it was the Nyquil/Flu derived drible in the middle of the night. The root of so much of our stress lies in our attempt to have CONTROL over the uncontrollable! It started with a simple question posed by my 4 year old daughter:  “Why can’t I have this TV show right now?”, she asked pleading with me to magically make her favorite episode of her favorite TV show appear instantly.  It’s […]

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5 Ways to Deal With Uncertainty at Work

“Will I have a job in 6 months?” was the question that kept me up many nights. For some time, I went through the gut wrenching stress and anxiety of trying to deal with uncertainty at work especially where things would come out of left field almost constantly. Unable to deal with uncertainty and chaos at work, I froze and became paralyzed by over thinking about what I thought was going to happen next. I just couldn’t deal with uncertainty […]

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