Ditch Your Stress In Five Steps - by Dawn Robinson

COURSE

Ditch Your Stress In Five Steps

With Dawn Robinson

Many of us are caught up in a never-ending search to find the one fail-safe technique that calms us down when stress and anxiety strike. Mindfulness, meditation, yoga, deep breathing - you’ve probably tried them all at some point. And yet, techniques to try and manage stress aren’t going to give you the answer you’re really looking for. The problem is that they’re tackling the symptoms of your stress (the insomnia, the crazy thoughts, the short temper) rather than the cause. Until you deal with the cause of stress, nothing’s ever going to change and all you can ever look forward to is temporary relief. In this short course, we’ll be challenging our ideas about what stress is and where it comes from and then you’ll be able to tap into the innate inner resilience and mental health we all possess and deal more calmly with any issues life can throw at us.

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Meet your Teacher

Dawn Robinson
Cotswold District, UK

Dawn is a workshop leader, coach, and author of the self-published books Ditch Your Midlife Stress From the Inside Out, Hot Flourishes, and The Menopause Wellbeing Journal. She runs online courses and coaching and helps midlife women deal with stress and anxiety find peace of mind and relax more easily using a conversational, non-technique approach. She worked in HR and as a management trainer in the financial and manufacturing sectors for fifteen years designing and delivering courses for managers of all levels. Later, she retrained as an Alexander Technique teacher and worked with individuals helping them use their bodies with less strain. She lives with her husband and daughter in the UK and loves walking, swimming and eating homemade cake.

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5 Days

1.8k students

4.7 stars

8 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Step One: What Is Stress?

How do you respond to stress? Most of us have developed ways to deal with struggle and overwhelm but what if it’s time to rethink the very ideas we have about what stress is? And then, with a new perspective, we create space for ways of effortlessly responding to challenging situations with more resilience.

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Lesson 2

Step Two: Thinking Positively About Stress

Do you think of stress as a positive or negative force? Join me to uncover how your answer to this question can have a direct impact on your health and discover three ways of engaging positively with difficult situations. Book referred to in this lesson: The Upside of Stress, Kelly McGonigal

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Lesson 3

Step Three: We Already Have Everything We Need To Deal With Stress

We often assume that if we’re struggling with stress, it’s because there’s something about us that needs fixing. But the liberating truth is that as part of the human race, we already come with all the resilience and inner resources we could ever need to deal with problems.

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Lesson 4

Step Four: Where Does Our Stress Really Come From?

It looks as if stress comes from situations outside us such as problems with our health, finances, or relationships. But if this is true, why is it that sometimes we’re stressed by our circumstances and other days we’re not? Is there something else going on in the creation of our stress that we need to understand if we are ever going to be able to deal with it effectively?

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Lesson 5

Step Five: Finding Creative Solutions To Stressful Problems

Even though we’re more able to deal with stress, life is still going to throw problems and issues at us - we still need to find solutions and take action. So in this lesson, we’ll explore our innate creativity, where it comes from and how to tap into it more easily.

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4.7 (134)

Recent Reviews

Ryan

November 6, 2025

I think for people whose stress is chronic and especially linked to income problems, the technique and examples may not get you far.

patty

October 6, 2025

So much to learn Going to listen again. Thanks for the encouragement 🙃

Elaine

October 3, 2025

A life changing course. Thank you

Yana

September 23, 2025

Thank you Dawn! Very good explanation with calm reassuring voice. Very helpful and clear!

K

July 24, 2025

Very nice, thank you.

Kate

June 3, 2025

So helpful! Simple but profound concepts presented in clear concise bites, with great personal examples, making tgem easy to understand. Thank you!

Christina

May 29, 2025

Very good course especially the last lesson. Well worth doing.

Melodie

April 2, 2025

This is a wonderful course. Especially if you’re in more issues (stress) than normal. It gave me a new way to look at and handle things coming up. Yes it has made me a better person. Thank you 🙏🏼

Jill

March 29, 2025

Very helpful!!! Thank you!!

Mary

January 19, 2025

Excellent

Cassandra

January 19, 2025

Was ok, but honestly took a very long time to get to what I think the point was. Unclear overall what that was about.

Germa

December 20, 2024

Learned this before, forgot most of it, so happy to 'get it' again at exacr

Dawn

December 10, 2024

Dawn was very straightforward and I like that. Easy to follow and gave practical ideas As a senior who has experienced a great deal of life I am still open to new ideas,,,,ways to improve our life. Thankyou Dawn BTW we share the same name

Frankie

November 24, 2024

Excellent. Now I see it. Thank you!

Dineen

November 19, 2024

Very eye-opening and transformational!

Laura

October 29, 2024

Enjoyed this short but powerful course and glad that I was able to gain new insights into stress and hope to change my mindset regarding it. Thank you!

Lani

October 19, 2024

Thank you. These sessions have given me new tools and insight

Lisa

September 12, 2024

Thank you for the explanations of stress, how it can affect us and giving different ways to think about it and deal with. I love knowing we have what it takes to change our experience with stress. 🙏❤️

Laurie

August 14, 2024

Thank you. Wonderful course. Great lessons

Jane

August 8, 2024

Thank you for sharing this course. Your simple strategies and suggestions make coping with stress more manageable. 🙏

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