Please Note: I’m not a doctor or an expert in reducing stress. Consider seeking expert help if your stress is too much for you to handle right now. All I’m sharing is what has been working for me.
The universe is a tad bit stressful at the moment. (semi-hysterical laughter) I’ve been doing two major things to reduce my stress and I thought maybe sharing these two things might help you a tiny bit.
Taking Action
I’m a fixer. I always want to fix situations. So taking action for me is key.
Yesterday, for example, I wrote a letter to the management folks at the post office, telling them our new mail delivery person (a young guy just starting out in his career) was doing a wonderful job.
What does this have to do with climate change, the situation I’m currently stressing about?
Nothing.
But this small act of kindness will hopefully make the mail delivery person’s life a bit better (and his job more secure) and it was something I could do. Easily. Quickly. It’s done. I made a tiny difference in the universe and that makes me feel good.
Being a writer, letter writing is one of my talents. I write letters, emails, messages to politicians, to companies, to volunteers. And sometimes these notes influence them. That’s powerful.
I’m also a hugger and hugging often reduces stress. I hug physically AND virtually. Both works!
I also do other things – like donating to charities ($1 donated to a food bank provides 1 meal to 1 person) or picking up garbage at the park or simply telling someone they’re doing a great job.
Making An Escape
When stress builds, I also escape… in a book I’m writing or a book I’m reading, in a TV show, in a movie, in the company of friends or/and family, in a tree-filled park. I might take a social media vacation, avoid the news, retreat into happier places for a while.
I rebuild my emotional strength and THEN I can return to the stressful situation. I can work on solutions. I can listen. I can make small differences.
There are a gazillion other ways to reduce stress. Take some time and discover what works for you, my friend. (big hugs)
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Seizing Power
This cyborg believes he’s in control.
Power is the self-appointed leader of the cyborg council. Other members might debate situations. He makes the ultimate decisions.
When a threat to Homeland is revealed, he takes command of a fleet and ventures to the edge of cyborg-controlled space to investigate. He finds a rebellion led by a mysterious upstart he calls Cadet.
The plan Power derives is simple—he’ll quickly quash the uprising and teach its leader a lesson the warrior will never forget.
NO ONE challenges his authority.
Eirene Ours might be called a cadet by Power but she is NOT his subordinate. She is the arrogant E Model’s genetic match.
For much of her mature lifespan, she has desired the male, yearning for his dark-eyed gaze, craving his sure hands, longing for his respect.
That esteem was never granted. And Eirene Ours can no longer wait to earn it. There’s an external threat to their kind, a danger that might destroy them all.
Having lured Power to her home terrain, she now plans to use everything within her means — her fists, her daggers, her ship-destroying missiles — to pound that truth into her stubborn warrior’s thick metal skull.
The future of every cyborg is at stake. She can’t fail them.
Power will believe her. Or he will die.
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Seizing Power is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features an epic battle between two equally strong cyborg leaders, plans that go terribly yet passionately wrong, and a love that will shake the entire universe.
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