# 14 Stress-Busting Strategies

## to Help You Avoid Burnout

### DON’T OBSESS ABOUT PAST SLIGHTS

### FLING AWAY TENSIONS 
1. SYMBOLICALLY

### USE GUIDED IMAGERY 
3. (Picture yourself tossing stress in the trash!)

### EXPERIENCE FLASHES 
4. OF BEAUTY

### APPRECIATE THE KINDNESSES OF 
5. THE CHILDREN YOU TEACH

### KEEP A JOURNAL

### CARRY OUT AN ACTIVITY THAT 
7. MAKES YOU FEEL COMPETENT

### LET GO OF PERFECTIONISM

### CALL A FRIEND

### 9 PUT ON SOME MUSIC

### CONSIDER THE MOTIVES 
10. BEHIND OTHERS’ BEHAVIOR

### NURTURE ANOTHER PERSON 
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Adapted from 
**Little Kids, Big Worries,**  
by Alice Sterling Honig