STRESS MANAGEMENT

Stress does not have to be just a part of your life that you cope with each day. Find some ways to manage and minimize stressors. 

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Stress Management Techniques

Journaling

• Reduce Stress by Journaling 

• Journaling for Mental Health

• 120 Gratitude Journal Prompts to Create More Thankfulness in Your Life

Apps for Journaling 

• Heyday App: Heyday is a photo journaling app that can import all the photos you take on your iPhone and create a media rich journal out of them. You can go back and add thoughts and descriptions to photos and memories. You can even tag your Facebook friends in Heyday posts they're a part of. If you find a photo or memory you'd like to add more photos to, just select them and group them all together.

• Day Journal: Day Journal is a private diary app which helps you record your life. Collect, record and organize your thoughts, ideas and experiences with photos, audio, emotions, categories, tags, weather and location data. It won't take long before you build up a wonderful collection of memories which you can then export or share in a number of different formats. 

• Day One: Day One is a journaling app for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Record life as you live it. From once-in-a-lifetime events to everyday moments.

Volunteering

• Volunteering may be good for body and mind

• Get Matched With a Volunteer Opportunity

• Find a Nonprofit Organization to Work With

Hobbies

• Hobbies Are Rich in Psychic Rewards

• The Importance of Hobbies for Stress Relief

Meditation and Relaxation

Guided Meditations - UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center offers meditations that you can practice on your own