Coaching practices for How to Handle Stress Better
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve gotten so good at "embracing the stress" that I keep telling myself I’m fine while quietly running on empty
- Right before the thing that matters
- Every time I feel stressed I also worry that the stress itself is quietly wrecking my health, so I’m stressed about being stressed
- When I’m in the thick of something stressful I go quiet and tell myself I’ll call people once I’ve handled it
- In the moment my mind goes blank and the only voice in my head is “you can’t handle this”
Practices that may help
- Pair the enhancing mindset with genuine stress management
Believing stress can be useful does not mean tolerating excess — recognize when reduction is the right move.
The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset - Practice the "see it, own it, use it" reappraisal
Crum’s framework: notice the stress (see it), acknowledge why it matters (own it), and channel it (use it).
The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset - Adopt the "stress-is-enhancing" mindset
Believing stress responses are helpful — not harmful — moderates the health costs of the threat response.
Challenge vs. Threat Appraisal, Made Practical - Reach out when stressed, not after
Contact a trusted person during stress, not only once it has passed — the oxytocin release is the active coping mechanism.
Tend-and-Befriend, Made Practical - Prepare coping self-talk in advance
Script what you will say to yourself at the trigger, during the peak, and afterward — before you need it.
Stress Inoculation Training - Practice coping under graduated real-world stress
Move from imagined stressors to mild real ones to full-intensity situations — always with your coping tools active.
Stress Inoculation Training - The body scan
Move attention slowly through the body, region by region, noticing sensation without trying to change it.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - Map your stress response (conceptualization phase)
Before you train coping, understand the full sequence: trigger → appraisal → body → behavior → consequence.
Stress Inoculation Training - Learn what stress actually enhances
Before you can genuinely adopt an enhancing mindset, you need to know what stress actually enhances — not just believe it on faith.
The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset - Graduated anger inoculation (stress inoculation exposure)
Practice coping with anger in imagination — from mild triggers to intense ones — before you face them live.
Novaco Anger Management, Made Practical
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Pair the enhancing mindset with genuine stress management
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- How To Handle High Stress Situations
Deliberately practice under conditions that simulate the stress of future high-stakes performance.
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Believing stress can be useful does not mean tolerating excess — recognize when reduction is the right move.
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Believing stress can be useful does not mean tolerating excess — recognize when reduction is the right move.
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