How Women Can Relieve Stress and Stay Healthy

Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsBuild Your Support SystemFind Balance and Learn to Say NoNurture Your BodyGet Enough SleepStay in Touch With Your FeelingsChange Your Self TalkFind Time for YourselfSafeguard Your Sex LifeAvoid Unhealthy Coping Habits

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Table of Contents

Build Your Support System

Find Balance and Learn to Say No

Nurture Your Body

Get Enough Sleep

Stay in Touch With Your Feelings

Change Your Self Talk

Find Time for Yourself

Safeguard Your Sex Life

Avoid Unhealthy Coping Habits

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Women today play many roles at once, and because any one of these roles can be all-consuming, finding the right balance of time to devote to different areas of life can require strategic planning. As such, we have unique needs regarding stress relievers and healthy lifestyle choices.

Social support can be a great stress reliever. Friends can help us in many ways, from offering a supportive ear to lending a helping hand. Studies have shown that those with strong social support tend to be healthier, happier, and less stressed.

One stumbling block to friendships for women is that we find ourselves so much busier these days. Demands of work, children, or other commitments can take over the time that was previously free to pursue friendships. Despite this, it’s important for women to make an effort todevelop social supportin their lives in any way they can.

How Social Support Contributes to Psychological Health

Without planning, prioritizing, and paring down, commitments can take over every spare moment of time, leaving little or no time in a woman’s schedule for important and self-nurturing activities likeme-time, exercise, friendships, and even sleep.

The following resources can help you find a better level of balance in your life so that you allow enough time for each area of your life that’s important, and the amount of time you spend in a given area reflects its importance to you.

Women are often the caretakers of others. We care for our partners and children, friends and family, but don’t always care for our own bodies.

Because stress causes greatphysical damage, it’s important for women to relieve stress in ways that nurture our bodies and souls.

Here are some stress relievers that are great for your body:

According to our research, too many of us don’t get adequate sleep and operate in a sleep deficit. This leaves us less productive and more prone to stress, among other things. Women often find themselves getting less sleep than they need or are unable to get a good night’s sleep due to stress. If you get too little sleep, the following resources can help you get the quality sleep you need to function well.

Too often, we’re told to ignore our inner wisdom and charge ahead in pursuit of our goals or to do what’s expected of us. While these things are important, if we habitually ignore what our feelings tell us about our choices and our lives, we make choices that aren’t in line with our true selves.

Being in touch with our feelings should be considered a tool for wellness. Becoming fully aware of how different events affect us can help us decide things like:

While it’s easy to discount our own feelings or ignore intuition if that’s become a habit, you can tune into these things at any time. It may take a little practice, but you will ultimately benefit greatly from listening to your inner wisdom rather than ignoring what your feelings are trying to tell you about your life.

When Should You Trust Your Intuition?

Women also tend to get into the habit of putting ourselves down and adopting a critical way of talking to ourselves. Your style of self-talk develops in childhood and becomes an ingrained habit that colors how you see and interact with the world. Your self-talk can also have the potential to exacerbate or minimize your stress level.

If you’ve developed negative self-talk or a pessimistic worldview, you can be missing opportunities, performing below your potential, and making events more stressful than they need to be.

With the busy schedules, women keep these days, whether working full-time, staying home with children, or going to school, women are often exhausted at the end of the day. Because of this, sex sometimes takes a backseat to everything else in life. However, whether you are too busy to meet someone, too frazzled to work on your relationship, or just plain too exhausted for sex, it’s important to make sex and your romantic life a priority, too. The following resources can help:

Women, too, are prone to dealing with stress in less-than-healthy ways, such as drinking to excess, smoking, and emotional eating. Fortunately, women tend to have a great ability for introspection, so if you fall into unhealthy coping habits, examining the roots of your stress and changing your way of handling stress can be helpful. See these resources for more information on unhealthy coping habits and find resources for a healthier lifestyle.

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