This week, we are sharing a series of online resources and top tips on the topic of managing your stress:
- Stress Vs Stretch Don’t confuse stress for stretch (a healthy sense of feeling challenged and pushed out of your comfort zone). Here, the common myth that stress can somehow help to produce better work is discussed
- Managing Stress
- 30 Day Challenge
- PhD Stress by Nele Pollatschek, a DPhil (=PhD) candidate at Oxford: A blog post as part of the Thesis Whisperer blog series
Also this week, take a look at the personal reflections from our colleagues in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Zone on their experiences over the last year of lockdowns and some of the ways they have coped.
Resources:
- Coping with the pandemic: UK mental health research reveals how UK adults are managing stress https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/news/coping-with-the-pandemic
- Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/student-life/tools-tips-and-videos/#ManagingStressAndStudentPressures
Coming up later this month….
All blog posts will be available through the PGR Mental Health & Wellbeing Blog
Week 4 – Get involved and relax