Soul Searching with Kate Snowise: How to surrender stress and find more happiness

Our guest this week is an expert on avoiding burnout. She shares practical tips to manage stress and personal wisdom on gaining peace. “Differentiate between pressure and stress. We aren’t helpless victims.” We can interrupt the process and choose our reaction. Problem focused coping: “We need to be really smart about how we put routines back together. Adding structure, creating a map of the week is calming to our minds to know what’s coming next.” Emotion focused coping mechanisms: “Getting emotional reserve that bolsters our ability to cope and helps us surrender.” She likens this to care instructions we might find on clothes, and reminds us it’s different for each of us so we need to “play and do things just for the joy of doing it.” Meditation and belly bringing, she shares how she does this with her 6-year-old. Develop intuition and listen to those “divine redirects.” Kate shares the soul searching she got from beating cancer: “it was a hard lesson to learn to strive less and appreciate more.” Her practical wisdom “Nothing that is truly meant for me can ever miss me.” This mantra helps release micromanaging and focus on all we already have. Follow me for uplifting content https://linktr.ee/nikkikloeppel and join my free work life connection workshop.