3 Fun Ways To Reduce Stress

Hi loves! Today, I’m sharing my 3 ways to reduce stress. Stress can be a tricky thing. You may be stressed without even knowing it. The pressure of everyday life can sometimes be a hard thing to balance. We all have things to help relieve stress for us, and today I’m going to show you my top 3 ways to reduce stress.

I find these ways help bring my stress level down to reduce bad eating habits, break outs, and mental drainage. Don’t let stress wear you down. Learn to overcome it or cope with it. It happens, life’s stressful and full of moments that are meant to push you. With that said, let’s get started:

Going To The Gym

For me, the gym is the best way to relive stress. I feel like I can literally go crush a workout and have this extra motivation when I’m stressed. The hard part is getting to the gym. By the end of the day, the stress of work literally makes me want to go straight to bed. Like DAY OVER!

I feel so drained and mentality exhausted by the end of the day, that heading to the gym is like the worst feeling ever. But I do it! I go and get up and have a great sweat session. Releasing those endorphins into your system makes you feel accomplished and the stress just goes away. I leave it all in the workout. 

Listening To Music

For me, I’ve learned that mediating isn’t my thing. I can’t just sit still and breathe to just feel better. Music is my form of mediating. I honestly just grab my phone and listen to whatever genre I feel best fits and laid there for a bit. I’m pretty sure that’s mediating just not the typical way we know.

I do focus on my breathing and let the song take me away. Just relaxing for a moment with music though makes a whirl of a difference afterwards. It’s more of a mental battle dealing with stress and sometimes the best way to cope is to just relax your body, control you mind, and worry about you.

Spend Time With Friends

Another way to reduce stress is by hanging out with my friends. Sometimes you just have to go out, relax and forget about the issues of that day. They call it happy hour for a reason. Sometimes just meeting up with the girls and having a couple of drinks and food, is just the thing you need. I can’t tell you how many times I go out with my girls and just sharing our weeks, boy drama, and laughing over drinks and food is just the remedy I need.

Sometimes, you need to just have a little escape. Laugh uncontrollably with your friends. This can also be like a little therapy session. Sharing your stress can help eliminate it just by simply saying what’s stressing you out. Sometimes saying it out loud makes it seem like nothing or doesn’t appear to be as scary as what your head is telling you.

In the end, stress happens to us all. No one can say they live stress free and if they do, they’re lying. They just happen to be able to cope with it better to not affect them. What are some of your go-to ways to destress yourself? Hope you guys enjoy my favorite ways to destress myself. Stress happens, but we can do healthy things to find a way to cope with it. 

XOXO 

Karen Giuliana