Prog. 10 - Stress Stories
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Dr. Denning describes terrific examples of the resolution to keep stress from escalating into anxiety. You will hear the stories of several people: Jamie is a fireman, Christina is soon to be divorced and a few others who have resolved anxiety and fear and live in lower levels of stress most of the time.
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Prog. 9 - Revise Stress Scale and Themes
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Look through the program to find the patterns and theme of your adaptive behaviors to stress.
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Prog. 8 - Good Enough Resolution of Stress
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Dr. Denning describes why “Good and Enough for now” is the resolution of stress to a lower level. Not a fix of the cause but a landing place that creates stability. Only now can you practice the full equation of the app: Stop/ Wait – Step into stress to keep it from escalating and develop new habits.
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Prog. 7 - When To React To Stress
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This part of the program focuses on active experimentation in creating resolution. You will discover small actions which help reduce stress before it escalates to anxiety. You will build a database of resources to use again and again.
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Prog. 6 - Developing Practical Stress Tools
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What can I try that will lower stress? The brain is using a dual perspective of here and now and there and then. Dr. Denning teaches
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Prog. 5 - Changing Reactions to Stress
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Stop/Wait: I know why I am reacting to stress… now what? The
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Prog. 4 - Self Expectations and Stress
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Discover your reactions to others as a cue for stress. Patterns
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Prog. 3 - Learning Social Adaptations to Stress
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Create a biographical inventory of your reactions to stress. Get directions on how to add in the biography to your app so you can see how current stress reactions make sense. Patterns and themes become easier to recognize as they happen.
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Prog. 2 - A Personal Stress Scale
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Get direct “How to” practice building a personal stress scale that helps you to ‘Step Into Stress’ – as it is happening. The Stop/Wait technique helps keep levels moderate before escalating to higher levels of anxiety. Set up the App to track levels of stress from 0-7.
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Prog. 1 - Introduction to Lower Stress
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In this first episode of a new series. This is a practice for everyone with stress! Created from neuroscience by Sara Denning, PhD. a clinical psychologist, the program is presented as a daily practice with an app to learn how to reduce anxiety and resolve stress in your life.
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self and other. Self-expression is developed by understanding who you can be expressive to and who will not understand. Learn how you react to specific people or social roles in the podcast as Dr. Denning helps you see the cues of stress in expectations of others and your own reactions.