The document provides strategies for managing family stress through creating, connecting, communicating, playing, pausing, having purpose, resting, reframing, and reaching out. It encourages producing something new using imagination and talents, joining with others, sharing thoughts and feelings, engaging in spontaneous activity, taking breaks from stress, focusing on goals, relaxing from labor, looking at situations differently, and extending yourself to others. The strategies are presented by motivational speaker and business coach Michelle Neujahr.

1. CPR for the Breathless Parent
strategies for managing family stress

2. we are stressed
we are not alone

3. create connect communicate
play pause purpose
rest reframe reach

4. create: to produce something new using your imagination and talents

5. connect: to join two or more things together

6. communicate: to get someone to understand your thoughts or feelings

7. play: spontaneous activity

8. pause: temporary inaction

9. purpose: the aim or goal

10. rest: freedom from activity or labor

11. reframe: to look or think of in a new or different way

12. reach: to stretch out or extend

13. Michelle Neujahr
Motivational Speaker Business Coach│
www.michelleneujahr.com