Lifestyle and Stress Management
Strategies for Transforming Life Challenges into Empowering Principles for Daily Living

The Lifestyle and Stress Management presentation and workshop was designed to address the daily challenges we face in our personal,professional, and creative lives as the result of our past experiences influencing our current perceptions. As the foundation for each of Tom's presentations and workshops, the concepts, strategies, and principals in this program help us to gain balance in our life, enhance the quality of our relationships, and increase our awareness of what we can do to improve upon our current conditions and circumstances to achieve personal fulfillment and actualize our true potential in all areas of our life. This presentation goes beyond superficial momentary quick fixes in dealing with the obstacles in our life; instead it focuses on in-depth, long-term, principles and strategies that address issues at the source of our challenges.

Includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Gain insight and strategies for lifestyle and stress management that we can use immediately in our life, whether it be at home, at work, and in our creative life
• Become authentically reconnected and reacquainted with who we truly are, i.e. our authentic self
• Enrich the relationships with those around us including family, friends, co-workers, and spouse
• Understand the cycle of stress and how it impacts life's outcomes and the relationships with one's self and others
• Become familiar with the framework for lifestyle management known as, CRUTCHES
• Find balance, meaning, and purpose in our life and all that we do
• Recognize the various stages of stress
• Increase our personal awareness of our unique response to stressful situations
• Realize the value of universal reciprocity and mutuality
• Learn to listen to, trust in, and believe in our authentic self and our resounding intuition
• Identify and appreciate the fundamental messages and lessons revealed during our most difficult experiences
• Exercise authenticity and integrity to promote permanent solutions to personal conflicts in our life
• Awaken our creative self as a means to manifesting happiness now
• Discover the innate power that is realized when exercising the complete self (mind, body, and spirit)
• Seek out and acknowledge the enlightened individuals in our life
• Connect with the influential and universal energy that is inherent in laughter, music, and creativity
• Begin writing our own personal and unique life story
• Find meaning and purpose in all that we do
• Reframe and reinterpret life's challenges and adverse experiences as powerful opportunities for learning
• Substitute negative and self-destructive "crutches" with empowering and supportive "crutches"
• Learn how to move away from judgment and disparagement and towards encouragement and empowerment