What’s your default stress response?

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When you find yourself in survival mode, in stress response, in that overwhelm or anxiety attack what do you do, how do you respond and what is your default position?

Is it something that has become a habit, that ‘go to’ that you have done ‘forever’?

For some it is that glass of wine in the evening…every evening. Perhaps for you it is that bar of chocolate or piece of cake that will make you feel better.

For some it is the need to be with someone…anyone rather than on their own.

It might be that you need to have the latest gadget that costs more than you are earning so that then you then add to your stresses.

Time to STOP, time for CHANGE.

So often we don’t allow that time, we keep going from problem to problem and straight to our default. Not allowing time to really investigate the ‘why’.

Why do we have this problem, this stress or anxiety?

Why does it keep happening again and again?

This is the time, time to ask for help, time to stop and find the answers.

Time to enable a change, a new route forward, not the one that has become a habit, that one that works for a bit but brings you around to the same problems further down the path.

We are responsible for ourselves, what better project can we have that finding out our ‘why’. If we find out, if we truly investigate, we can acknowledge it, we can then move forward with an understanding of how not to repeat it. We might not know what will happen along that path but at least it is a new, fresh pathway with the understanding of what not to repeat.