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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

I know a lot of people think breath work is foo-foo but I gotta tell ya...it works. Just stop, stand still for a minute and take a few deep and mindful breaths. It truly does help you re-enter. These are all really good tips. I'm going to give a few of them a try. And then go to that Golden Retriever retreat 😁

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

I’ll see you there!

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Jack Dixon's avatar

Such a great collection of strategies here, Tim. Thank you for this. Bookmarked for future reference and sending to others in times of stress.

Although the idea of taking a sledge hammer to my iPhone is growing more appealing by the day 🤪

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

I’ve seriously thought about it hahaha!

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Leyla Kazim's avatar

Aww thank you for the mention Tim and there are some great suggestions here!

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Victoria Fann's avatar

Love these suggestions, and especially your take on them. Just reading about them reduced my stress. Good tools have a way of doing that for me. Thank you!

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Remember- laces out!

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Erik, those are the most insidious thoughts out there. Sometimes I struggle with the same thing. Worrying about a future event that may or may not happen. If I wake up to n the middle of the night, that’s when these thoughts get me.

I don’t have a good answer on these ones. Daily exercise and meditation have helped me a lot.

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Erik Hogan's avatar

These are all great tips! I feel like I handle stress pretty well when I encounter it in real time. My problem is when upcoming issues, sometimes not even big ones, pop into my mind at night and keep me from sleeping. I'd love to just mentally let it go, but my brain doesn't cooperate, lol! Any suggestions?

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Klamo's avatar

Thank you for the suggestions. Now I have some additional tools in my destress kit. This one I already had in it. After I have a stressful moment, encounter, whatever, I give myself up to 5 minutes to yell, dance, kick, punch,.. In essence I let my body get rid of the stress in the way it needs/wants. After that I consciously try to let go and move on with the rest of my day.

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

This one is really good. It’s hard to pull off in public without causing more stress though! I like to have a solo dance party that always feels therapeutic, but I haven’t done one because of an incident. They are just a good after-dinner fun thing to do when I’m alone. It’s totally free flow. Punches and kicks usually end up in it.

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Klamo's avatar

I'm sorry to hear you are unable to do them because of an incident. I usually do them when I'm alone. And now I have a name for them: a therapeutic free flow solo dance party. The breaths are my go to when I'm in public. They help to calm me down and sometimes even the persons around me.

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Jill Key's avatar

Good stuff ❤️

Golden Retriever retreat? I’m in!!! 😀

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

I would love to go to one- but so far it’s by invite only apparently lol

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