What Happens When We’re All Caught In A Stress Cycle?
Before we left school for the April Break, I had a really interesting conversation with my teaching partner, Paula. Our conversation had us wondering: right now, are we all caught in a perpetual stress cycle? In Ontario, the Coronavirus numbers are currently out of...
Psychology Today: “Lumos Solem” – Breaking Free From a Stress Cycle
The great paradox of a stress cycle is that the harder you try to escape the tighter is its grip. Yet simply trying to relax and look dispassionately at one’s emotional distress is no more effective. Stuart Shanker’s blog post for Psychology Today describes how we can...
Psychology Today: Caught In a Stress Cycle
We may not be the most stressed generation ever but we are certainly the generation that talks the most about how stressed we are. We are constantly bombarded with messages that play on this theme: “You need to take a holiday,” “Pamper yourself,” “Buy this miracle...
