3. Managing stress by talking back to your FeelingTalk

Coaching

Stress in our lives is triggered by events, changes, demands and pressures. Many people react to their stressful environment with, what we call, FeelingTalk.

For example a person who is highly stressed at work may come home and "talk" about it by showing anger or tears or harshness. Here are some examples of FeelingTalk.

The way to control FeelingTalk is to find a way to pause before reacting, in effect, to stop the impulse to respond immediately. Some ways to pause include:

• count to ten
• leave the room
• take a walk
• go to the bathroom

Mentoring

In the following chart, use the left hand column to indicate some of the ways FeelingTalk affects you and use the right hand column for ideas of how you could pause or control the impulse before you react.

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