What is Stress Relief Coaching?

Stress is inevitable—and that is not going to change. But the truth is stress doesn’t just ‘happen’. Stress is a key determinant in health, well being, quality of life and successful aging. Knowing that stress is a ‘process’ is the critical concept and foundation for a comprehensive prescription for stress relief. My coaching helps people learn how to develop healthy responses to the stressors in life.

The stress process is influenced by a cause and effect relationship between triggers or stressors:

Acute: Life’s disruptions
Chronic: Life’s disparities
Traumatic: Natural/man made disasters and emergencies
Hassles: Irritating ongoing annoyances
Major life events: Marriage, divorce, death

When we consciously or unconsciously appraise one of these causes as exceeding the capacity of our resources, we unconsciously and automatically label it as a stressor. Those triggers arouse of the mind and body leading to one or more of the four typical responses.

Biological: Heart beating fast, sweaty palms, muscle tension
Emotional: Joy, happiness, irritation
Psychological: Anxiety, fear, moodiness or depression
Behavioral: Running, fighting, eating problems

Living a life with less stress requires congruence, clarity and purpose.  With coaching individuals learn to blunt or abort harmful biologic responses and practice emotionally healthy behavior until it becomes natural.

Often the problem is that clients don’t know how to respond any differently to triggers which ‘push’ our buttons. We unconsciously respond to the stress by doing what we have been doing‐‐‐and of course these patterned responses don’t help… they often make things worse.

StressRelief Coaching  helps uncover limiting personal beliefs and attitudes which may lead to automatic negative or problematic thought errors which lead to negative stress responses. 

Relief may be achieved from understanding conscious and unconscious happiness factors, self regulatory behaviors, and the sources of emotionally toxicity in your life and rediscovering your
internal focus and power.

A critical component of StressRelief Coaching is helping high achieving individuals re‐connect personal mind and body power. My clients also get to know their personal links between stress and illness, disease, premature disability and death. The StressHealth Profile™ is a tool which pinpoints genetic predispositions, self care habits, current stress load, sources of support, coping style, personality traits, current medical status and nutritional practices which may be putting individuals at risk for harmful effects from stress.  Clients receive a personalized ‘prescription’ with specific actions steps for individual stress relief, including the use of nutritional supplements.  The good news is that genetic wiring is not your destiny. Coaching provides customized tools, tactics and support you can reduce and reverse risks for ER visits, heart disease, diabetes, stroke through better regulation of the stress in your life. Taking control of your stress process is a life and death proposition.

Successfully handling the stress in your life is not just about getting rid of anxiety. Through coaching clients also learn to harness the positive power of the stress response to achieve top level performance, creativity, personal happiness and other peak experiences.

When you understand the stress process in your life,  you become a thermometer not a thermostat. With coaching you fine tune  self awareness skills; the ability to pay attention to what your body and mind is telling you; adjust , just back off, take time to heal, revision, repair or rebuild.

Potential ‘Cost’ Savings for Organizations:

• Improved employee job satisfaction
• Reduce Absenteeism
• Reduce Presenteeism
• Greater employee loyalty
• Improved employee retention
• Enhanced individual productivity
• Improved preventative employee education
• Avoidance of on the job accidents
• Avoidance of development of medical related direct and indirect costs
  • Workplace stress results in more than $300 billion each year in health care nationally. (American Institute of Stress, NYT article 9/5/2005)
  • Workers who say they are stressed incur health care costs that are 46% higher, or an average of $600 more per person, than other employees. ( Am J Health Promotion 2000;15:45-52)
  • 8% of all employee medical expenditures are due to STRESS
  • 19-20% prevalence of STRESS in public and private sector employee groups gives STRESS the highest economic burden on an individual basis for your employees (Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 46(4):398-412, April 2004)
• Healthier employees; less hypertension, heart attacks, strokes, fatigue, anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal problems, flares of immune related disorders such as asthma, rashes and arthritis
• Increase appropriate disease/case management referral for related high cost physical health conditions ; cardiovascular disease, diabetes, migraines, GERD
• Reduction in Pharmaceutical costs
• More effective Utilization of existing EAP resources

Benefits to Individual Employees:

StressRelief Coach consulting and coaching services aid in personal/professional growth and development. Specific objectives will be determined. However based on preliminary conversations the benefit will include, but not be limited to assisting employees:

• Fully realize professional, personal, and business goals through taking a leadership position on personal wellness and stress regulation
• Accept & embrace stressors as inevitable conditions that require healthy responses.
• Discover your BestStress Zone.
• Distinguish between controlled/regulated stress and unregulated stress.
• Understand how stress leads to heart attacks, strokes, premature disability & death.
• Learn and Practice ‘just in time’ stress regulation strategies to stay in your BestStress Zone.
• Create a customized StressHealth Portfolio inclusive of ‘risk assessment’, StressHealth Profile, personal goals & objectives, tasks, and timelines.
• Develop a personal Stress Relief Strategy for short and long term Business and Personal Needs
• Integrate and Chart lifelong sustainable course of actions inclusive of; Prostate Health, Menopausal, Reproductive Wellness, Care-Giver Role, Responsibilities and Rights, Leisure Time Practices, Physical Fitness, Nutrition and Weight Control

 

If you are an employer with valuable talent experiencing stress—or—you have a team with predictable times of stress in this 24 hour competitive global market place, contact the StressRelief Coach today!

This unique service begins to accelerates performance through immediate StressRelief after the first session. Results Guaranteed!

Service Options: Face to Face (House Calls) – Telephonic – Electronic Ongoing & ‘On-Demand’

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Email: info@stressreliefcoach.com