What experiences do you find particularly stressful? How might your early life experiences have influenced the development of your SRS?

Assignment Question

Journaling: 300 words per part

Part 1: How does your stress-response system work? How does your body typically respond to stress? What experiences do you find particularly stressful? How might your early life experiences have influenced the development of your SRS?

Part 2: What are your “go to” coping strategies? What emotions do you find most challenging to regulate and why? When/what situations do you exercise self-control best? When/what situations do you struggle with self-control? What aspects of your body budget are easy to regulate? Which aspects of your body budget do you find more challenging to regulate? How do challenges in self-regulation appear in your life as struggles with emotions and behavioral self-control?

Part 3: How do your thought patterns, emotions, and behaviors contribute to the stressors your experience? How do the environments you experience contribute to the stressors you experience? How do the relationships in your life contribute to the stressors your experience? How do the stressors you experience feed back into your thoughts, emotions, behaviors? How do the stressors you experience feed back into the environments you experience? How do the stressors you experience feed back into your relationships?

Part 4: Prior to this class, what strategies did you rely on to manage your stress? How successful were those strategies? What new strategies did you learn? What strategies fit you best? What strategies do not seem to work for you? Are there any strategies you found to be particularly helpful? Particularly unhelpful?

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