Michael Gurian Quotes

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

We have two tractor-trailer rigs on the Tour. One is a therapy truck, and one is a workout truck. If everything is going well, you're walking in the workout truck, and when things aren't going well, you're walking in the therapy truck.

How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

Intimacy and community buffer stress.

My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.

Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studies to my father's death was eased by my practice of it.

People don't drop me with shots on the temple.

I can't stand adversity and stress and drama and tension. I can't function in that environment. If I have anything to say about it, we're going to get rid of it so that everyone can just relax and have a good time.

Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.

I go into the kitchen and cook with music on or go for walks around my neighborhood when I feel the most overwhelmed.

I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.

When you're on campus, you go through a lot of hard times and you need someone to talk to.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

I will continue going to the psychologist. It helps me to manage the pressure and emotions.

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.

We all deal with a certain amount of stress, on a day-to-day basis. I probably smoke too many cigarettes, which isn't a very good thing. I don't have any extraordinary coping mechanism. I certainly don't talk to a dog.

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more of your time than your personal life, then that's called stress, okay? And it's called worry and things like that. Worry is a sign that you're trying to be God. The greatest stress reliever to me is this sentence: God is God, and I'm not.

These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.