Anxiety and stress can significantly impair your quality of life. It can impair our ability to focus, strain our relationships, and negatively impact our performance at work. Extended periods of stress can also have long-term consequences for our mental and physical well-being.
And more of us are regularly going through this in a world that is becoming more divided and tense.
Even if there isn’t a miracle treatment for mental health issues, there are a number of research-backed practices that might help us feel less stressed and anxious.
This is the idea behind the first-of-its-kind newsletter course, Six Steps to Calm, which I, Melissa Hogenboom, a scientific writer and editor from London, wrote. I’ll walk you through a series of easy, scientifically supported anti-anxiety activities that you may do at home over the course of six weeks.
Dealing with a number of unforeseen physical health difficulties earlier this year, which included two major emergency surgeries, taught me some of these techniques. My personal stress levels significantly decreased as a result of these workouts, which also assisted me in changing the way I think about
