Managing Your Emotions: Dealing with Stress Successfully

Product Description

Overview

Maria Kereshi, Psy.D., explores the impact of stress on our physical and emotional health. Stressors can be chronic or situational, and they can affect all aspects of our lives and ministries. Learning to regulate our emotional responses to stress in healthy ways can increase positive life and ministry experiences, improve interpersonal relationships, and increase confidence.

This presentation highlights the different types of stressors and their impact on emotions, and offers concrete strategies for maintaining emotional stability.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

1. Explore the ways stressors can impact their lives;
2. Learn the benefits of regulating emotions; and
3. Identify practical strategies for managing emotions during stressful times.

Who Should Participate

Priests, deacons, religious, diocesan lay ministers, parish staff, seminarians, and those involved in vocations, formation, and personnel needs.

Reflection Questions

Questions for reflection and discussion prior to the learning session are provided below.

1. What are chronic stressors I experience now, and what are situational stressors that I may predict will occur in the future?
2. Are there ways to minimize the impact of future stressors?
3. What areas of my life can be affected if I practice regulating my emotions?