“Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet”
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What mom couldn’t write a book on the effects of stress? Is there a mother out there who isn’t intimately acquainted with all that makes her blood-pressure rise, her head pound, and her stomach acid burn, turning a perfectly nice women into a fire-breathing dragon?
Stress is part of the job description of motherhood. In fact, if you do a search for the top ten stressors in the work place you’ll find that it’s just a description of a normal day in a mother’s life.
So what is a mother to do?
Well, believe it or not, there are some very simple things that any mother can do to reduce stress and to cope better with her daily chaos. Here are a few to start with.