Stress & Anxiety Reduction Tips

It’s normal to experience stress and anxiety. However, when we experience them too frequently or over a longer period of time, they can become harmful. This month, we give you tips to reduce stress or anxiety in the moment, when you first experience it.

Upcoming Events

Register for a 30-minute orientation webinar to learn about
your EAP benefits. Burnout webinars are 90 minutes. 
Visit our webinars page for more information.

Research & Resources

When Anxiety Becomes Unbearable (Harvard Business Review). "Psychologist Ellen Hendriksen on the warning signs — and responding with compassion."

Depression & Anxiety: Relationship to Stress (Washington State EAP). Video (1 hr.) on impact of depression and anxiety, relationship to stress, self-care best practices, and available help and resources.

Emotional Stress Remains a Burden on Students as COVID Fades (Gallup). "Students in associate or bachelor’s degree programs are no less likely than they were in 2021 to have considered stopping their coursework at least temporarily before completing it."

The Asian American Experience: Highlights from our focus groups (Pew Research Center). "In a new Pew Research Center analysis based on dozens of focus groups, Asian American participants described the challenges of navigating their own identity in a nation where the label 'Asian' brings expectations about their origins, behavior and physical self."

Why the Phrase ‘Exercise Is My Therapy’ Is Harmful (livestrong.com). "When it comes to mental health struggles, too often people get caught up in the belief that they have the capacity and/or obligation to work it out on their own...Exercise is therapeutic, but it is not therapy."