Prepare for Stress

Learn to evaluate your stress with the stress scale model. Dr. Denning covers High levels of stress and biomarkers. You can Stop/ Wait, interrupt your stress reaction and step into the “real life” situation to bring stress down the scale.

Learn to evaluate your stress with the stress scale model. Dr. Denning covers High levels of stress and biomarkers. You can Stop/Wait, interrupt your stress reaction and step into the “real life” situation to bring stress down the scale.

Learn how to understand the origins of your personal stress reactions and anxiety in your lifetime from adolescence to your current age. A biographical inventory will show how experiential learning took place with stress. Discover the themes and patterns which make sense with your history.

The multiple dimensions evolve from learned expectations of  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.

The stress resolution process begins with Stop/Wait – I  know what is going on and why. Now, a series of questions helps lower anxiety. Dr. Denning takes you through the next steps of building self-direction from within stressful situations through "complete communication."

Practical responses to anxiety and stress include the choice of using a known response that works or finding new resources to use…What can I try that will lower stress?

Living in real time demands timely reactions. A sense of urgency occurs with stress and a sense of being pushed to act with anxiety. Experimenting with who and when and where you act on resolving stress is a key to practicing proactive stress relief.

The final piece of the recipe for resolution. The feeling of “good and enough” is available when you have taken charge of your part of stress. You come at it from self-knowledge and practical resources to modify the anxiety factor.  

Look through the program to find the patterns and theme of your adaptive behaviors to stress.

Dr. Denning presents stories of people using the recipe for resolution. The whole recipe is used here as people have taken charge of their adaptive behavior of stress from self-knowledge and  using practical resources.