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How Do You Relax And Manage Stress?

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San Francisco, CA
September 28, 2016
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Members shared a wide range of personalized strategies for managing stress, with popular approaches including physical activities like... Read more

Members shared a wide range of personalized strategies for managing stress, with popular approaches including physical activities like walking, biking, or playing with pets; creative outlets such as reading, coloring, knitting, or crocheting; and mindfulness practices like meditation, yoga, deep breathing, and prayer. Several members described how emotional support from pets, music, nature, and time alone provides relief, with recurring themes of setting boundaries, limiting exposure to negative people, and prioritizing self-care through hobbies, rest, or simply doing something enjoyable.

A DiabetesTeam Member

If not TOO stressed and anxious, I take a seat in my favorite fluffy chair and tune everything out, concentrate on breathing in the good and exhaling out the bad. It's like walking a tight rope with distractions, but it's better than any drug or drink or any other artificial bull. After I relax I run a bubbly-scented bath and light my cinnamon-apple candles.

October 11, 2016
A DiabetesTeam Member

I cook, when life becomes out of my control, I need to control something in my little world, so I cook, and I can control exactly what goes in & how it comes out

October 10, 2016
A DiabetesTeam Member

@A DiabetesTeam Member, I try to keep things very simple too.
I ask myself just one question.
Is it my pie ? If the answer is no, I keep my
mouth shut and walk away. I keep my fingers in my own pie.

December 30, 2016
A DiabetesTeam Member

Playing Cricket is my main activity. Between playing on Saturday afternoons, and then training sessions on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon/evenings I get plenty of exercise. The other good thing is that my BSL's afterward are really good.

October 11, 2016
A DiabetesTeam Member

Well folks as I'm disabled 61yr old with type2 diabetes when its warm spring or summer weather I relaxing by taking my dog Winnie to the beach, I take a flash of tea & I sit on a huge log & I get immense pleasure from watching WINNIE chase her BALL or a stick & bring it back to me. In colour weather I take her for shorter walks. If the weather stops us from going out then I chill in the dark evening with a large glass of red, listening to Music with Winnie on my lap!

October 8, 2016

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