Hello Everyone,

As some of you might know this has been a slightly stressful week for me, lots of little fires to put out and things that needed to be planned yesterday. For the most part all thats left are smoldering ashes and a couple unfinished projects... Cest la vie.               

But I have had many of my clients tell me about stresses in their life, and ask me how to work around it. (Hehe, they still think I have all the answers to life! At least it makes me feel special.) Well, I certainly have a lot of stress, and I do deal with it.... but I'm not qualified to tell you how to cope with yours, instead I will tell you how I deal with mine.

Coping with stress is something everyone deals with almost daily. Most personal trainers would like you to believe they deal with stress by stoically training with humungous weights and eating Fava beans. Well, I'm not entirely sure what a Fava bean is.... so I will instead share with you my secret to dealing with stress.

I create new and exciting projects, such as my current melt down product; training for a 10k race. Am I doing a 10k, well no... but I needed a distraction for a little while and this was the first thing that came to mind. So when this thought bubble passed I immediately jumped onto google (not literally, figuratively of course) and searched me up a plan.

I found one..... but I didn't stop there, I must have SOME strength training, so I busted out a text book. Hours later I had a well versed, organized and shiny (also not literally) new plan! By this time all thoughts of stressful matters where in the distant realm of my mind, a place where no respectable girl would go.

So there you go, when my life goes out of focus I move, I create, I sort or build or do. When I feel too much negativity in my life I am compelled to balance it with something positive. Some other suitable alternatives for me; Cleaning cupboards, chopping vegetables, weeding my garden, ripping up old clothes to make clothes (especially fun because it's destructive!) and my personal favourite, organizing my cloths. Basically any mindless and simple but productive activity works.

 Well, there you have it, my advice for stressed out clients is do something to get your mind off whatever is stressing you out (provided that which is causing you stress is not an activity such as exercising or cleaning your house, in which case my advise is stop whining and just do it ;) ).

Keep Moving,

Shidoin