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How to manage your stress during the COVID-19 outbreak

The spreading coronavirus continues to change our daily lives. Local 5 spoke with a mental health professional about stress-management tips.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Local 5 brought you facts, not fear as we spoke with Ramona Wink with 515 Therapy and Consulting about creating an action plan to navigate your daily life as Covid-19 spreads.

The top 10 tips for stress management during these unsettling times includes: intentionally monitoring time spent receiving news and engaging social media, rely on credible new sources, increase time/energy on real-life relationships, develop a personal mantra, change the way you think, develop and maintain self-care routine, maintain hope, reflect and build on your support team, make a difference in your community and remember what's worked in the past.

For a deeper look at these 10 tips and the assistance available from 515 Therapy and Consulting, click here.

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