Original article posted on: Girlboss.com
Written by: Sarah Laing
This content was created by Girlboss in partnership with Ritual.
Juggling endless deadlines, navigating relationship stuff, freaking out about the general state of the world: You don’t need us to tell you all the reasons you might be stressed.
What you might not know, however, is that the solution to your stress doesn’t have to be some big, dramatic “quit your life and move to Costa Rica to live off grid and surf all day” cure.
In fact, the cure—or at least, the coping mechanism—for the stress we all experience can often be found in small, daily rituals that eventually become habits.
“When it comes to stress management and navigating our very full lives, the little things done well actually aren’t that little after all,” says Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, a psychology researcher and author of Stress Wisely, a book about how you can make stress your ally, not your enemy. “It’s the daily wins and decisions that we make that bring us closer to how we want to be feeling that make a world of difference for our well-being—that consistency compounds.”
