Stress affects us all and it’s how we deal with those challenges that determine our quality of life. Learn how to better manage stress and anxiety to live a more present life.

Life comes at us fast, and sometimes hard. Stress affects us all. But it’s how we deal with those challenges that determines our quality of life. With Stress Less Live More™, you’ll feel better, sleep better, concentrate better, and probably even eat better. There’s a good chance you’ll also feel less physical pain, experience more energy, and also communicate in ways that are less reactive and more effective.

Stress Less, Live More

Home Practice-Session 1

Tracking Sheet

This session discusses the role of mindfulness-based interventions in relation to stress, attention, control and low mood.

What is Mindfulness and How Can It Help Us

Stress Program Handout Session 2

This session expands on the understanding of mindfulness as well as begins to explore the reactions to stress, the stress cycle and the 7 Attitudes of Mindfulness.

Understanding the Stress Cycle & Cultivating Attitudes of Mindfulness

Stress Program Handout Session 3

This session expands more on the stress response and how mindfulness can help participants respond to stress more skillfully.

Recognizing Stress in the Body

Stress Program Handout Session 4

This session takes some time to work through obstacles to changing the way participants relate to stress and focuses on developing mindfulness strategies to move beyond those obstacles.

Working with Common Challenges in Mindfulness Practice

Stress Program Handout Session 5

This session discusses more about the link between stress and performance.  It focuses on developing mindfulness strategies to stop automatic pilot responses to stress and how to improve focused attention.

Understanding Stress and Performance and Turning Off "Automatic Pilot"

Stress Program Handout Session 6

This session looks more closely at how thought patterns often generate, or add to the, stress experienced in life.

Learning to Break Free from Your "Mind Traps"

Stress Session 7 v2 Home Practice

This session focuses on being able to recognize emotions in the body, understand the interplay between thoughts and emotions during the stress cycle and how emotional literacy can help to work more effectively with emotions when experiencing stress.

Developing Emotional Literacy to Manage Stress

Stress Session 8 v2 Home Practice

This session looks at how stress influences relationships and how mindfulness can help improve relationships from loved ones to colleagues.  It also discusses mindfulness skills to work with challenging interactions for more effective results.

Working with Relationships Mindfully

Stress Session 9 v2 Home Practice

This session integrates what has already been learned by creating a Mindful Way to Reduce Stress Action Plan.

Creating a Stressbuster Action Plan

Stress Program Handout Session 10

This session deepens mindfulness skills and plans for how to continue developing these practices in the future.