Understanding Your Stress Response Take a few events that have created stress for you and deconstruct them by answering the questions below. Example 1 What is the speci c emotion you felt when you noticed you were stressed? You can use the emotion list from our last meeting. __________________________________________________________ Intensity 1-10 _____________________ Is this an internal stressor or external? ___________________________________________________________ How long did it take you to come back to balance after this event? _________________________________ What is the event that stressed you out? _________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ What is the meaning you gave the event? ________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ How did you respond to the event ( ght/ ight/freeze)? ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ How did you resolve the event? ________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Remember that nothing that you did above is wrong. This is your stress response at work. But this doesn’t mean that it has to be this way. Take some time below to reconstruct the above experience What is a meaning that you could give to the event that would result in a positive emotional reaction? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ What is a way that you can resolve a similar event in the future to signal to your body that you are safe? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Example 2 What is the speci c emotion you felt when you noticed you were stressed? You can use the emotion list from our last meeting. __________________________________________________________ Intensity 1-10 _____________________ Is this an internal stressor or external? ___________________________________________________________ How long did it take you to come back to balance after this event? _________________________________
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