Specialities - Thrive Under Pressure
The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.
Andrew Bernstein
Major life transitions such as a new school, new job, different boss, moving homes, living in a new country, getting married, having a new baby or dealing with illness in yourself or a loved one can cause stress and pressures.
Some symptoms of pressures impacting your well-being:
Emotional Suppression or Outburst
When dealing with work stress, relationship changes and new choices, you may experience suppressed emotions causing you to avoid major deadlines or certain people in your life or bury yourself in work rather than to deal with your feelings and thoughts about the situation. Conversely, you may find yourself lashing out at people or crying when you normally would not. You may even feel a loss of joy from things that you used to be passionate about. In more severe instances, you may experience shortness of breath and high blood pressure indicating panic attacks.
Imbalanced Lifestyle
Some people become workaholics and leave no time for rest, play or meaningful connection with people that matter. Others may freeze under pressure and cannot focus on the task at hand. When your life habits and rhythms fall outside of your normalcy, this is a sign of unmanageable stress and pressure.
You can regain your sense of balance and capacity to thrive
Can counselling psychotherapy help you thrive under pressure?
With evidence-based techniques, trust, courage and gentleness, you and your therapist can help to manage and thrive under pressures at hand.
At Know Me Well, the multi-pronged approach to thriving under pressure includes:
- Identifying the key pain-points about the pressure you are dealing with.
- Explore the automatic, unconscious response to the pain-points against your values and beliefs.
- Gain insight on the controllable and uncontrollable aspects of the situation.
- Appreciate and practice your unique strengths and capacity under pressure in the therapy room.
- Promote new thoughts, coping mechanism and self-care activities