Handling Stress in the Moment
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HBR IdeaCast
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: One of the things that sometimes can come up for people is that they initially fail to notice they’re getting stressed out, they fail to do the breathing, they lash out at someone, and that’s when they notice how stressed they are. And really if you’ve affected someone– this is where my expertise around conflict comes in– if you’ve affected someone, if you’ve yelled at the person behind the counter, at a co-worker, if you’ve snapped at your kid, it’s OK if you sort of wake up to that moment and think oh man I am stressed out. How in that moment can you kind of get a handle on the situation so that A, you don’t feel so stressed, but also B, that you’re not just sort of overwhelmed by all the things?