RELAX!!! Today is National Stress Awareness Day. This is your opportunity to recognize that there is plenty of stress in your life... as if you didn't already know. More importantly, today is an opportunity to learn, and to do something about the stress...... before it drives you batty or worse.
National Stress Awareness Day was started by the Health Resource Network(HRN) in 1992 to raise awareness of stress. April is also stress awareness month and people are asked to take a look at their stressful lives and deal with them in a healthy manner.
On National Stress Awareness Day, take a day off from the list. Take a break from all lists and spend the day in a stress free way with your loved ones.
Plan a day at home doing absolutely nothing. Stock the fridge the day before with easy to prepare meals. Rent or buy stress-free movies. Clean your most comfortable clothes and get in them. Sleep in late and stay in bed or on the couch all day. Do nothing for one day a year and enjoy.
Celebrate National Stress Awareness Day by relieving your stress in a long term way. Find meaning. If that means finding God, do that. If that means letting hobbies fall to the wayside, do that. If that means quitting your stressful job and doing what you always wanted to do, take steps to move toward that. Make long term decisions that will relieve your life of stress.
Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit 501(c)3 bereavement camp that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or primary caregiver. The free camps include confidence-building programs and age-based support groups that break the emotional isolation grief often brings. Comfort Zone Camps are offered to children 7-17, and are held year-round in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia.Comfort Zone provides grieving children with a voice, a place and a community in which to heal, grow and lead more fulfilling lives. Comfort Zone envisions a world where grieving children are not forgotten or left to grieve alone, and are supported by a wide community that understands and appreciates them.
Comfort Zone Camp is set in a rustic camp environment to get kids away from the distractions of the real world and create what they call the “camp bubble.” Within the camp bubble, no one wears a scarlet letter “D” for Death Kid, isolation is broken and turbo-bonding happens because everyone else has lost a loved one too.
While within the camp bubble, kids are given the opportunity to play, share their stories, build trust and friendships, and receive validation from their peers that whatever they are thinking and feeling is okay. All of this leads to an increase in self-esteem, and a good time.
Donation $5
To support Comfort Zone Camp, please visit: http://www.comfortzonecamp.org/
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