2. Bell Ringer What things/situations in life tend to get you stressed out? How do you usually handle your stress?
3. What is Stress? Stress: a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation Eustress: a positive form of stress that helps us to perform, and is usually experienced when we go through events such as graduation, wedding, the birth of a child, a competitive event, or a vacation. Distress: a negative form of stress causing great pain, anxiety, or sorrow, mental suffering, or affliction. Can cause physical symptoms and illness as well.
11. Coping with Loss and Grief Acknowledging loss is one to help begin the healing process. Expressing Grief: the grieving process can help people accept the loss and start to heal.
12. Grief Grief is a journey, often perilous and without clear direction, that must be taken. The experience of grieving cannot be ordered or categorized, hurried or controlled, pushed aside or ignored indefinitely. It is inevitable as breathing, as change, as love. It may be postponed, but it will not be denied. MollyFumia
13. Stages of Grief Denial: difficult to believe that loss occurred Anger: feeling loss of power unfairly deprived Bargaining: reality of the loss sets in Depression: beyond feelings of sadness Acceptance: closure acceptance of the loss
14. Ways to cope with loss Take one day at a time Get enough sleep Eat balanced diet Build support group surround self with those that care Talk to others that have experienced what you are going through Find creative ways to journal, art, hobbies, exercise
