Marta G.

There is a lot of stress in my life, like in everyone else’s lives, but I learned how to minimize its affect on my body and my mental health.
 

There was also one extremely hard and difficult situation in my life, which made me feel completely powerless and showed me the darkest parts of being human, so all things that I’m telling you about, are based on my own experience.
 

First thing that always works for me is changing the stressing environment. If a bad thing happens in some specific place, then I try to leave, go somewhere else, the further the better. In my case, staying close to the nature has a healing effect. The next thing that always help me is yoga and working out, especially exercises where I need to focus on breathing, and keeping my body in a perfect harmony with breathing. It works that way, that you keep your brain busy with counting or holding your breaths, so it’s not busy with the stressors. Another thing that always helps me is pretty simple: I talk with people I love, I tell them what is going on, and what I’m dealing with. Sometimes telling someone, and knowing they got your back is really restorative, and makes you feel you’re not alone in this.