Suggestions to get relief from stress

[christina_9w9]

I am marketing head of a FMCG company and over a few weeks I am feeling dizziness, anxiety, and a dreadful sense of doom. After a recent fight at work with Boss over a marketing campaign the situation become severe. Stress is destroying my life. I don’t know what to do. Please suggest.

[redrhodie]

Read "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. Try a yoga class. I also find that cutting back on sugar and refined foods helps you feel better. Eat more vegetables, get some rest, and try not to take things too seriously. Do you love this job? Is it worth the anxiety your feeling? If not, maybe you need to make a change.

[maryellen]

Ride your bike -- seriously. If possible, select a future (but not too far in the future) ride or event that will require training. Having another focus in my life (cycling instead of work) helps me keep the work issues in perspective as well as have fun.

[mikki]

A question to ask yourself: Is the flogging you're getting worth the flogging you're getting? Ponder this as you ride. Ponder the day as you ride. Then let it go. It is over with. I sometimes make a list of pros vs cons for a serious situation (sounds cliche, but true), then decide what action to take, and what the worse possible outcome is. Then move forward. Still, in the end, ride, ride until you sleep well, then ride some more.

[Voodoo Sally]

Ugh. Your situation sounds fairly serious. Start with some hard exercise. Like the rest of us, I recommend cycling. Then take a hard look at your job, and whether it's worth the trouble. I had a miserable life in my old career, changed my career, and have been much happier since, going on 12 years. Sometimes less is more. As in, less money, less stress, more time, more happy.

[TexanCzexican]

Ride your bike -- seriously.

Can not agree more!!

I'm also in marketing and we are doing a whole new brand launch on Sept 1. My stress level is so off the charts that I have not been sleeping, or if I do, I've been having nightmares about work. I was even telling myself I was too tired to do anything.

Kirk, my SO, told me to go ride my bike, I saddled up and just went as far as I reasonably could. I slept better that night then any in the past few months! So, I made myself go out and ride every day that week. I leave work after putting in 8-9 hours, I refuse to work 9am-9pm like some of my coworkers, I realized that I need to have "me" time in order to de-stress. Riding my bike has seriously helped me calm down and being out on the road by myself, I'm able to let my mind just go. It's really a great thing.

[michelem]

See this: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=17930

Hope it helps.

[LBTC]

Everything everybody else said and:

visualize butterflies. Butterflies will always make you smile.

PM me with your email address and I'll send you a beautiful photo each day that will give you one moment to pause and smile at something (usually) beautiful.

Later you can decided if you need to change jobs or not.

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Zen]

Stress is a killer, literally.

And it helps cause that little Bhudda belly.

Life is short, there are other jobs out there. I bet you'd have no problem finding another marketing job.