Jenny-great point. I think mental is huge as do I about balancing stress.

I believe that dealing with stress and limiting it might not be as good an aproach as balancing stress and recovery.

Stress, with balanced recovery, makes us stronger.

There for stress is important. Controling doses and balancing with recovery makes us stronger.

Its a given we will have stress. Its reality.

J. Loehr believes mental and emotional and physical stress are all technically physical. Our thoughts and emotions are results of physical action (chemical/biochemical etc) in the body. He also believes that they all effect each other. Therefor mental, physical, and emotional recovery are needed as well as stress in all areas.

Mentally worrying and emotionally getting upset by the problem is adding more physical stress to the actual problem.

Sounds like you have a great attitude!! I believe that will go a long way.

Makes sense to me not to stress the body more than you need to. Be that chemically concocted toothpaste or negative thinking.

With digestive/elimination problems it makes sense to me to limit the stresses to them the most.