In today’s society, women’s roles often include family obligations, caregiving for children and/or elderly parent (statistically more likely to be a woman) and work responsibilities as well as other roles. As demands increase to fulfill these roles, women can feel overwhelmed with time pressures and unmet obligations. They may feel a sense of failure in not being able to meet expectations for themselves and others. Oftentimes women are so busy that they do not take time to slow down long enough to think about how stress is negatively affecting them. The result of a research carried out on some women has shown the level of stress in women as a result of their daily route which oftentimes result to one ailment or the other and even sometimes leads to untimely death. Women can manage stress by practicing healthy self-care strategies for coping with stress. Examine your negative stress signs in each of these six life areas: physical, emotional, mental, occupational, social, and spiritual. What would you like to be different in your life? What do you need to do to achieve more balance or potential? Here are some suggestions for every woman. Please share to every woman out there so they can get healthier and better in 2020 and years to come.

1. You cannot finish all the house chores in one day. Those who did are sick and some are buried already.

2. Please create time to rest, it is not a sin to sit down, put up your legs on the table and pick popcorn while watching TV.

3. Please sleep if need be that headache will go. Those who refuse to take vacation, or leave, or time out or rest time, their families are missing them because they have gone untimely to their maker.

4. Stop taking sedatives to sleep, you are destroying your brain and organs. At a point you will begin to forget things. Relax the brain, worry less, think less, laugh more, and smile more. Everything will pass with time.

5. Sometimes go and sit outside quietly on your own, do nothing say nothing, just admire Gods handiwork, breath in fresh air calmly. Hurry not.

6. Stand by your mirror smile to yourself, laugh, dance and sing that turns on positive aura around you so you can glow.

7. Go buy yourself a snack or two or drink non-Alcoholic wine if you choose to do so. Just do something for yourself even if hubby does that for you so you off load the things in your head.

8. Get necessary home gadgets to ease your work in order to avoid stress. Stress is the highest silent killer of women.

9. If you are not feeling well say it , do something about it, go to health centre, hospital or call a nearby nurse, do not sit around waiting for hubby to buy drugs. He may come back late, your life matters.

10. Check your blood pressure and sugar level occasionally, whether you are sick or not. It has saved a lot of women in the past. Trust me on this.Image Credit - google

Nice one but should be in health section