Expert Interviews Series! with Hélène T. Stelian

You focus on helping people manage stress. How do you define stress?

Generally, stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources that individual is able to mobilize. In other words, stress is the side effect of us believing we can’t handle something.

As you can tell from the above definition, stress is often recognized for its negative effects, but it turns out there is a lot more to stress and it can actually be good for you! Here you can find the different types of stress identified by The American Institute of Stress: Read more…