Managing exam stress

Managing exams and assignments can feel overwhelming at the best of times but add living with COVID for another year into the mix and stress can feel even more heightened. In this post we explore how to support yourself during the exam period.

Managing exam stress

Managing exams and assignments can feel overwhelming at the best of times but add living with COVID for another year into the mix and stress can feel even more heightened. Many of you will now be preparing for upcoming exams and so we are re-publishing this post to support you in managing exam stress. You might have already come across lots of helpful tips on how to manage pressure and stress at this time so some of the things included here might sound familiar to you. My hope for this post is to help you see stress differently, to experience it in such a way that it has less of an impact on you so you can feel better able to revise and sit your exams.

Managing exam stress

Managing exams and assignments can feel overwhelming at the best of times but add an academic year like no other before into the mix and stress can feel even more heightened. Many of you will now be preparing for upcoming exams online and so we are re-publishing this post to support you in managing exam stress…

Lockdown 3: checking in on our emotional wellbeing

Here we go again. That’s how I’m feeling anyway, and how many people I’ve spoken to are feeling too – family, friends, colleagues and students. What happened to the new year and leaving the difficulties of 2020 behind? Whether you are currently living in the UK or not, I imagine that you are in some way feeling the impact of the country being in lockdown again.

Managing exam stress

Managing exams and assignments can feel overwhelming at the best of times but add recovering from a year like 2020 into the mix and stress can feel even more heightened. Many of you will now be preparing for upcoming exams online and so we are re-publishing this post to support you in managing exam stress. You might have already come across lots of helpful tips on how to manage pressure and stress at this time so some of the things included here might sound familiar to you. My hope for this post is to help you see stress differently, to experience it in such a way that it has less of an impact on you so you can feel better able to revise and sit your exams…

The importance of feeling connected

As we enter another lockdown, I find myself thinking again about what is important for us all in feeling well, and feeling able to manage the changes and the adjustments that have become a part of life in 2020. At times, the sense of uncertainty can feel overwhelming, and it can also makes things feel unreal. For me, personally and as a counsellor, I come back to the importance of connection. Of feeling a part of something that keeps us in touch with ourselves, with others, with the world more generally, and which supports us in feeling grounded. In this post, I’m going to explore these different types of connection that hold importance in our lives, and think about how we might access them at the moment.

In Praise of Boredom

Why you might ask, am I starting a blog, designed to engage your attention and interest, with a celebration of this often despised feature of current living. Firstly, I was myself experiencing, or rather wallowing in, the restrictions and passivity brought on by lockdown. There was the frustration of not having the usual face-to-face connection with students in the counselling room, made worse by the resentful dependence and – in my case – humiliating engagement with new technology…

Managing exam stress during lockdown

Managing exams and assignments can feel overwhelming at the best of times but add a global pandemic and national lockdown into the mix and university stress can feel even more heightened. Many of you will now be preparing for upcoming exams (or trying to!) and adjusting to the new format these are now in. You might have already come across lots of helpful tips on how to manage pressure and stress at this time so some of the things included here might sound familiar to you. My hope for this post is to help you see stress differently, to experience it in such a way that it has less of an impact on you so you can feel better able to revise and sit your exams.

So what is stress and why do we feel it? Answering this can help us understand how we can manage and view it differently…