Stress Management

Everyone feels stress from time to time and it can be a normal response to the demands of everyday life, but chronic stress can lead to physical and mental health issues.

Stress Busters

Manage Stress in a Healthy Way

Everyone feels stress from time to time and it can be a normal response to the demands of everyday life, but chronic stress can lead to physical and mental health issues. Kidney patients may feel more stress because of their diagnosis and the challenge of dealing with health changes. If ongoing stress and anxiety are impacting you negatively, consider speaking to your healthcare provider for support.

Stress Buster Exercises

Light Heart Tapping

Tapping across the midline of your body increases the connection between the right and left sides of your brain and can help to settle your nervous system.

(5 Minutes)

Matrix of Support

Challenge yourself to think beyond just the wonderful people in your life about all the supports and resources that speak to you.

(16 Minutes)

Bubble Breathing

To help ease your sense of pain this technique uses the parasympathetic branch of your nervous system. Plus, Meghan talks you through a body scanning exercise.

(9 Minutes)

Stress Buster Instructor

  • Meghan Gorosh was born and raised on Snuneymuxw territory, also known as Nanaimo, on beautiful Vancouver Island. She is a anti- oppressive renal social worker and also the founder of Elan Wellness. Having completed the somatic experiencing practitioner program in 2022, her intention is to create a safe space, and hold that space for people to breathe, to be curious about their experiences, and to enliven and expand their inner resources thereby empowering growth, greater systemic regulation, and transformation.