Welcome Back Questions - THANK YOU!

Hello all and happy Monday!

If you're like me, there's a chance you look just as frazzled as Bugs Bunny because of finals week. Throughout the week I have been majorly stressing over the amounts of work I have for my classes along with working my part-time job. So THANK YOU for the response to my post last week about trying to manage stress because your ideas severely helped me with relaxing throughout the ending of the semester. The general consensus is that going to the gym is the best form of de-stressing and I completely agree. I tried Bill's suggestion of treadmill sprints and, even though I wanted to die, I had the best runners high after completing them! I also made sure to just take time to myself last week, even if it was for five minutes, to just sit in solitude and reflect over the semester and imagine my plans for our six week break.

Thank you again for all of your suggestions, I cannot wait until this week comes to a close and I can relax with a good book that I do not have to analyze.

Good luck with finals everyone!
-Colleen

Welcome Back Questions!

Hello All!

For those of you who are new to my blog WELCOME! I created this last year as a way to help my fellow students, along with myself, try and stay healthy (physically and mentally) while being away at college--which we all know is ridiculously hard. With that being said, finals week is coming up and end of the semester projects are looming, and if you're like me you convinced yourself at the grocery store today that getting a tub of chocolate ice cream was a good thing because you deserve happiness in a bowl as a way to de-stress.  I know chocolate doesn't solve all your problems (yes it does), so I am searching for a different way to relax while frantically studying and finishing my 10 page papers.

Therefore, I am turning to you, my fantastic followers, to provide me with insight: What you do when you're stressed? Do you work it out at the gym? If so, what's your ultimate stress-relief fitness routine?

I love the feeling after a great run at the gym, it makes me feel so refreshed. I also rely on drinking tea. For some reason it seems to calm me and focus me back on my homework. I found this picture on Pinterest and thought it was interesting and worked pretty well with the topic of my thread; I think I'm gonna find myself some chamomile this week.

Good luck everyone! I look forward to reading your tips :]

-Colleen