A Single Mother's Stress: How Prior Experience and Perception is Reality
The Impact Our Experiences Plays Upon the Stress Factor
By Christine Cadena, published Apr 05, 2007
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As stated, a single mother's stress can be found, for the most part, in the point of view or perception of the issue at hand. What may be stressful to one single mother is often not stressful to another. In fact, as a single mother, what we gauge our stress upon is simply based on our past experiences in life. These past experiences may lie root in the interactions you previously had with your parents, educators and even events associated with your culture, neighborhood or ethnic background. As a result, we have developed the ability to create stress around particular events and experiences and, when these events or experiences are repeated, our body will naturally respond with a physiological change that is often not intentionally planned and, thus, we have stress reactions which, ultimately, impact our health. So, how do we change the perceptions and experiences so as to alleviate the stress response when the event is repeated?
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Takeaways
- Stress can be alleviated through meditation and relaxation
- A single mother often feels stress due to financial and emotional experiences
- Stress responses are automatic, often connected to prior life events.
Did You Know?
To alleviate stress, single mothers must place the physical response into perception and determine why and how the prior event is, or is not, related to the current event.
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