Healthy Ways to Handle Life’s Stressors

When stress becomes unmanageable, try these evidence-based tools to tackle it in healthy ways.

Stressful experiences are a normal part of life, and the stress response is a survival mechanism that primes us to respond to threats. Some stress is positive: Imagine standing in front of a crowd to give a speech and hitting it out of the park. Stressful? Certainly. But also challenging and satisfying.