Stress

Stress is defined in this context as physical, mental, emotional strain or tension that is caused by a situation, occurrence or factor per Dictionary.com.

For the past month or so, a business has been put charges on my credit card although i have canceled the service multiple times plus my financial institution has finally blocked my card after continued failed disputes. To help the myself and those affected, I did contact the BBB in the home State of the business plus the Attorney General in my State. The ongoing charges have caused stress because I feel helpless in getting it stopped and my funds returned.

My “friend” who blamed me for crashing her ex’s father in law’s funeral because of my side hustles returned without apology like nothing has happened. Her ex husband and former brother in law were hovering over my social media after she went to the funeral. At this time, I am not contacting her at all. Ever since she became my supervisor years ago, she feels that she’s superior to me which I believe that we are all created equal and each have God given talent and abilities. One of her adult children lives in another State not nearby her who has no contact with her although he is married with young children. She blames her ex husband for that. To level up, I am far from perfect and I make plenty of mistakes too which I made a big one on a popular buy/sell platform which I humbled myself and fixed the situation this weekend.

Work. My employer chooses to not have a written handbook of policies and procedures which bit them in the butt recently. A coworker who overshares her personal life and under performs her duties used the meter machine to create a package label about $20 without permission and payment. Amazingly, she still has a job! To help keep her job, she buddies up with almost everyone except for me. She tried but I knew that she was playing to gain influence. Plus, I do her duties now that she had when I started because I get the job done in a reasonable amount of time. Her ex sister in law that works for an in house attorney who got her the job cannot afford to have her record tainted. This job is a job. I have chosen not to become friends with anyone there my instincts tell me too.

As we all know in our mature years is that life is stressful so how we manage it is crucial to our health and to our mental well being. Lately, I laugh about work and about my friend’s bad decisions but the money thing eats away sometimes. My fur babies bring me peace and love so I in return give them lots of treats and kisses to relieve stress.

How do you manage stress? Depending on the severity of the situation, do you change on how you cope or deflate it?

Thank you for your time,

Leslie Elizabeth David.