Why Your Stress-Management Techniques May Not Be Working: Stress-Design Model for Long-Term Stress Relief

Ever tried stress-management techniques and wondered why they didn’t work to lower your daily stress levels? 😩 This clip can tell you why…

It’s from a recent keynote for the Canadian Mental Health Association, Brant-Haldimand-Norfolk Branch. (I LOVE an audience that knows how to have fun and laugh!!)

We’re taught what I call the Critical 6 of Stress Management:

💃 exercise
💤 sleep
🥗 nutrition
🧘🏽‍♀ self-care (mindfulness, meditation etc)
😎 optimism / laughter
👯‍♀️ strong social connections

We KNOW making healthy choices is powerful – OF COURSE! BUT – these aren’t a whole solution – and they aren’t universally beneficial (as you’ll hear in the video)

That’s why my Stress-Design Model is so powerful. It goes deeper to stop creating the unnecessary, destructive stress in the first place. Then fewer resilience muscles need to activate!

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Allison Graham resilience speaker on a couch with a black blazer and a tshirt that says be bold be brave be brilliant

Welcome! I'm Allison Graham

Let’s face it – life is already tough enough without adding destructive stress to our days. Yet, the hectic pace, intense change, and constant need for resilience makes it hard to find solutions that stick. 

That’s why I’m obsessed with sharing ways to make the human experience easier by offering strategies for faster problem solving, dealing with chronic pain, leveraging empowering stress, and stopping patterns that create destructive stress. 

I hope you find huge value in my content. To go deeper or bring this message to your team, please check out my online courses, coaching, and keynote speeches