Create a PowerPoint presentation on your experience with your selected coping strategy and relaxation technique. Attached will be the worksheet to base the relaxation techniques and coping strategies.

Planning Worksheet: Coping Strategies and Relaxation Techniques

Using your textbook, select a coping strategy and a relaxation technique to address in your final assessment, which will be a PowerPoint presentation. Briefly describe what each one entails.

Coping Strategy:	Healthy Balance: This involves maintaining equilibrium in various life domains of work, personal life and health to prevent burnout and enhance well-being (Seaward, 2022).
Relaxation Technique:	Exercise and nutrition: Regular physical activity and balanced diet help reduce stress hormones and improve mood as well as increase energy levels (Seaward, 2022).

Using the following list, identify three or more stressors in your life that you can focus on for this assessment.

Work, Life, School-Life Balance	Marital Issues	Legal Issues
Parenting	Change in Career Status	Health Concerns
Financial Concerns	Death of a Loved One	Other ______________

Now that you have identified a coping strategy and relaxation technique to focus on and you have identified several stressors to address, in 2–3 sentences, explain why your selected strategy and technique appeal to you. Include supporting evidence.

Healthy balance strategy and exercise and nutrition relaxation techniques appeal to me because of the stressors that I have and the need to have structured time management and boundary setting as noted by Seaward, (2022), so as to deal with such. Work, life, parenting, and health concerns are all major stressors in my life. Trying to balance them all at once is difficult, but manageable.

Provide a brief description of how you plan to use the coping strategy and relaxation technique. Include supporting evidence. This description can be as simple as the following examples:

“I will use journal writing on a daily basis over the next five weeks” or “I will use some of the techniques listed for Art Therapy each week over the next five weeks."

Note: Some strategies may be more difficult to implement on your own. If you choose one of these, your exploration will consist of discovering more about this strategy or technique. In this case, you will write: “I will discover ways in which progressive relaxation could be used to address stress.”

To manage my stressors I plan to begin eating healthier with a meal prep balanced diet and avoiding stress eating. No more fast food, junk food, or soda. I have started to meal prep at home for my lunches at work. I have started to do grocery pick up to help maintain the meal preparation as I dislike going into the grocery store. I will start going on walks with my family as a form of exercise and plan to build up from there.

Describe potential challenges you see in applying your selected strategy and technique. Explain via supporting evidence.

Coping Strategy Challenges:	Relaxation Technique Challenges:
Financial burden: Nutritious foods such as organic and fresh produce can be expensive which makes it difficult for individuals on a tight budget to maintain a healthy diet (Seaward, 2022).	Lack of motivation: Self efficacy beliefs related to one’s ability to succeed are important for maintaining exercise habits (Tao, et al., 2024)
Low self-esteem: Individuals with low self-esteem may avoid exercise due to fear of being judged at gyms or in fitness classes (Seaward, 2022).	Cost of "healthy" food: A study by Springmann et al. (2021) found that healthier diets cost significantly more than processed alternatives.
Previous failures: Many people struggle with consistency due to past failed attempts at exercise or dieting which leads to demotivation (Rodrigues, 2023)	Lack of time: Busy schedules due to work, parenting, and school can make it difficult to prioritize exercise and meal prep (Seaward, 2022).
Fear of judgment: Weight stigma discourages physical activity as noted by Wagner (2022) thus causing obesity.	Lack of support: Without social encouragement, individuals may struggle to maintain healthy habits (Seaward, 2022).

References

Rodrigues, F., Figueiredo, N., Jacinto, M., Monteiro, D., & Morouço, P. (2023). Social-Cognitive Theories to Explain Physical Activity. Education Sciences, 13(2), 122. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13020122

Seaward, B. L. (2022). Managing stress: skills for self-care, personal resiliency and work-life balance in a rapidly changing world: skills for self-care, personal resiliency and work-life balance in a rapidly changing world. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Springmann, M., Clark, M. A., Rayner, M., Scarborough, P., & Webb, P. (2021). The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(11), e797-e807.

Tao, Y., Xu, T., Wang, X., Liu, C., Wu, Y., Liu, M., Xiao, T., & Qiu, X. (2024). The relationships between emerging adults self-efficacy and motivation levels and physical activity: a cross-sectional study based on the self-determination theory. Frontiers in psychology, 15, 1342611. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1342611

Wagner, B. E. (2022). Weight Stigma and Physical Activity Behaviors Among Adults: Context Matters. University of Minnesota.