Breaking Free from Stress: Your Personalized Path to Emotional Wellness
Hey there! I believe that I’ve chosen an interesting topic that affects all of us but isn’t easy to control – stress. We’ve all been there, right? Or when life just feels like a pressure cooker, and you are wondering if there is ever an outlet. The good news? Stress therapy: don’t let the term fool you – it’s a true process of regeneration in a battle with your inner issues.
Let me introduce you to Priya, a 32 year old software engineer from Bengaluru who just began drowning in the agitation of her daily life, imp… Her story is not only about stress, but about change and a victory inside a person, about hope and regain of oneself.
In Priya’s case, stress was manifested by muscle contraction, sleepless nights and gradual feeling of isolation went unnoticed until all those signs were present. What is more, the anxiety began to affect her normally creative thinking, and the once close knitted relationships started to deteriorate. What Priya did not know was that she was in for a ride of her life of sorts from stress therapy techniques.
Techniques That Transformed Priya’s Life:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT was Priya’s first therapy where she realized the negative pattern of thinking that she had. With some encouragement from her therapist, she started practicing what her therapist referred to as “self-observation”. In the course of writing the thought journal, Priya was able to identify causes of stress that magnified stress levels. What is more, such a process was not an attempt to stifle one’s emotions but to channel them into the analyzer .
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): At the same time, through the MBCT approach, Priya starts to be more present-minded. Automated negative thoughts were replaced with more adaptive thought patterns throughout the process, and it was helpful to her. Mindfulness practice helped her find the ways how she could watch her feelings without deteriorating into judging them.
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): Instead of providing a crippled individuals like Priya with a place of solace, MBSR became just that. She tried on being mindful concentrating on what she felt at the moment, the way she described her emotions. Using this method served as a signal to her nervous system by helping her to confront situations she found difficult with fresh presence of mind.
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT): ACT taught Priya a profound lesson: emotional acceptance. Leaving her feeling crazy versus her working at trying not to feel crazy, Priya was told that she could ‘let it pass’ because dropping the struggle actually lessens tension. In the choice point technique of ACT she enumerated activities which led her towards stress such as overworking at the office and activities that helped her away from stress like walking in the evening, yoga. It made Priya understand that it is high time that she started planning things according to the way she thinks she should live.
- Psychodynamic Therapy:Going further, Priya looked at how experiences from the past, early childhood included, connected to current stress patterns. This was not about complaining about the past but knowing how it was and guarding against it.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: From her therapist, she learnt on how to fashion a comprehensive plan on ways of enhancing her situation. Rather than dwelling on where her stress originated from, they concentrated on ways of making positive adjustments.
- Exposure Therapy: Increments to the challenges were handled by Priya so that she was able to overcome her stressors. It also freed up some measures of control they had over her life and thus strengthened her.
The Transformation:
The results were remarkable. As you might expect, Priya’s muscle tension dissipated, she began to sleep better, and her productivity rose. She built more true connections with friends or rather people around her and the overall quality of her life improved significantly.
If you are a follower of the subway series, then your subway might vary with that of Priya but the whole idea of the change happened in her is one thing that most people can relate to. At Happy Lab, we know that people cope with stress in different ways and, therefore, need specific help.
If you have some sense of an emotional issue you would like to work on, you are now ready to embark on your journey towards emotional well. It’s easy to book a counseling session with Happy Labs and might prove to be the best thing you do for yourself. At Happy Labs our qualified therapists use the variety of stress management approaches tailored to the client’s individual situation.
By choosing therapy, you’re not just managing stress—you’re:
Building individual cases on how people deal with the situation
Building strong psychological armour
Gaining deep self-awareness
Improving Interpersonal communications
Raising life satisfaction’s general level
Here is your chance to make all the stress that you have been experiencing go down the drain. This is how a person starts on the journey to achieve a balanced fulfilling life- one act of courage.
