Managing your stress positively 

By Valeria Vilar, MA, BEd, LMHC

Do you feel irritated, tense, disorganized, have a headache or feel that you are not using your energy productively? If your answer is yes, you could be suffering from stress.

Susan wakes up every morning, makes breakfast, wakes her children up and gets them ready for school. When her children and her husband begin with their daily activities, she starts organizing her house. But she realizes that she will never manage to accomplish her expectation of having the house perfectly neat and clean, preparing a perfect meal, and doing the shopping. By the time she has to pick her children up from school she feels worn out and frustrated because she was unable to meet the goals she had set in the morning. In the afternoon, when her children are home, she feels impatient, and by the time her husband comes home from work she is nervous and exhausted.