Clearing your mind of all the clutter and worries for a while can give you a fresh perspective. Russo also strongly advocates meditation as a stress-reducing tool. It can be as simple as prayer time or taking a walk, calming yourself down and paying attention to what you're seeing in the world around you. It means being really focused on what you're doing. Doing things in a slower motion very intentionally.
Some women find writing their thoughts in a journal very beneficial.
Just getting it out and on paper can be very cathartic. If you eat nutritiously, get enough exercise, take some time for yourself, affiliate with people that love and care for you, get enough rest, find time to play, connect spiritually - those things help prevent the ravages of stress. An important distinction, said Russo, is not that we avoid stress. It's that we learn to manage it. Good things are stressful, too.