STAY CALM PROGRAM

Anxiety/Stress is the mind and body's reaction to stressful, dangerous, or unfamiliar situations. It's the sense of uneasiness, distress, or dread you feel before a significant event. 

It's important to note that everyone feels anxiety to some degree regularly throughout their life. Fear and anxiety are helpful emotions that can function to help us notice danger or threats that keep us safe and help us adapt to our environment.

Anxiety becomes a problem when it causes significant distress that impairs your ability to function in important aspects of life, such as work, school, or relationships. There are several different types of anxiety, each has unique features. Here are some common symptoms that might be a clue that you or someone you know maybe suffering from anxiety: Does your anxiety/stress keep you from sleeping, concentrating, talking to others, or even leaving their home? Do you experience fear or worry and do not go away and get worse over time interfere with daily activities like school, work and/or relationships?  Does your anxiety result in feelings of being irrational, overwhelming, and disproportionate to the situation?  Are you experiencing a lack in control over your feelings, that can involve physical symptoms like headaches, nausea, or trembling? Anxiety disorders increase one's chances for suffering from other physical medical illnesses, such as cardiovascular disorders, including obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

Small Changes: Stay Calm Program, can help you address your specific issues connected to the experiences that cause your anxiety that significantly interfere with your work, your school, your relationships, and  your social life and other functions. will help you identify triggers that may be causing your anxiety and develop coping skills. Let me help you put the normal back in your experience of anxiety.