Stressor Identification

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Introduction
Personal and professional stress often coincide, stemming from the same stressor. Everyone has unique triggers that are considered stressors, which evidently leads to stress. Although each situation has individualized reactions, seven main themes have emerged that characterize common causes of stress: sour unpleasant relationships and people conflicts, time constraints and related issues, crises in the school, challenging policy demands and overwhelming mandates from governments, budgetary constraints and related issues, fear of failure, and negative publicity and dealing with media (Sogunro, 2012); thus proving that the same stressor can overlap into both the personal and professional setting. As previously stated, everyone has stressors that have been created and manifest in different ways. Leading to, one stressor that impacts my personal and professional life: eating.
Stressor Identification For someone who one hundred percent has a Type A personality, it is frustrating when I loose control over a situation and for as long as I can remember that has been my eating. I have always been an extremely picky eater, to the
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Consequently, eating has caused positive and negative effects within my professional life. Although said situation has caused more negative effects than positive, findings show that stress is not necessarily a bad thing; thus, its significant contribution in creating the strong educator I am today. Every educator should see themselves as a role model to their students, with this being said, the struggles I have gone through have provided me with various life experiences that help me connect with the students I work with. However, with being a role model, it is essential you try and portray the ideal learner, regardless of what is going on in your personal life. Many educators strive to leave the negativity at the door, so it does not impact education, which is something I find very important and try to do as