March 22, 2025
Introducing . . .
MAP Stress Sessions
We've talked with many of you about how current events are presenting a new level of stress and challenge each day (understatement, right?!). We have good news!
Machaelle and her team have given us a way to get some much-needed help for these uniquely challenging times. The "MAP Stress Session" is designed specifically to address the kind of ongoing stress and chaos that can quickly overwhelm us and take us under.
Most of us don't fully understand how chaos and this kind of stress challenges our health and well-being. Recent studies are proving the connections, showing how prolonged stress affects our hearts and cardiovascular systems, "frays" our nervous system, "blows up" our immune systems, hormones and endocrine systems. And of course, both acute and chronic stress adversely affect our mental health.
If you work with MAP: The Co-Creative Medical Assistance Program by Machaelle Wright — you now have a new, easy-to-incorporate way to address this uninvited problem!
Some of you were on board as soon as you read the first two sentences of this email. We heard your resounding, "YES! Thank you Machaelle!" We feel the same! Beth and Jeannette (aka the Question Line Duo) started doing these sessions the day Machaelle introduced them to us. They've made a world of difference.
Some of you are more stiff-upper-lippy or well-practiced at "managing" stress and overlook the long-term affects until you can't anymore. Some of you avoid reading or listening to the news. Unfortunately, these things won't make you immune. So even if you are stoic or you're unbothered by the news, do these MAP Stress Sessions anyway. This kind of stress is in the air. It's all around us.
Your Goal: To remain grounded and healthy, so you are capable of addressing whatever comes up. So that you are able to think and continue to be useful.
You only need to dedicate 30 minutes of uninterrupted alone time for this. It'll be your "me time" to vent or "stress dump." If you want to do it in a hot tub with a glass of wine, feel free!
The next time you're about to fritter away 30 minutes doom-scrolling or Tik-Toking because you just need a break, do a MAP Stress Session instead. It will save you time in your day. It will free your mind to function better. Don't turn it into a chore. Let it come to your rescue.
MAP Stress Session Steps
1. Open your MAP coning exactly as you would for a regular MAP session (see MAP, page 37).
Optional 1b. Take a dose (12 drops) of ETS for Humans.
2. Set a timer or alarm for 30 minutes.
3. Tell your MAP team, "This is a MAP Stress Session."
This is important. It's not "implied." Say those six words aloud to your team. It's the only purpose of this session.
4. Start talking. Let it all out. What you are stressing, worrying, concerned, fretting, seething about . . . Throw it all out on the table. You'll be "stream of consciousness" talking — concentrating on what's bothering the hell out of you. No filtering! You're unloading so that your MAP team can help you, work with and on you, to address the health impacts of stress.
It's a 30-minute session to address the stress. It's always and only 30 minutes. You don't have to talk the whole time, but you must stay in it for the full 30 minutes.
5. At the end of 30 minutes, thank your team and close your MAP coning (see MAP, page 42).
Optional 5b. Take a dose of ETS for Humans.
Again, your goal is to remain grounded and healthy, so you're able to address whatever comes up, to think and function well. Your MAP team is working on you during these sessions in support of this goal.
MAP Stress Session Schedule
For the next several years, have a MAP Stress Session two to four times a week.
(Yes, we did say "several years." But no one knows how long this will be needed. You’ll be doing these special sessions as long as there is chaos and feeling like the world has gone all batshit and topsy-turvy.)
If you're the stoic-type, commit to at least doing a MAP Stress Session for yourself twice weekly. See what this gives you.
How to Weave Stress Sessions with your Regular MAP Sessions
A MAP Stress Session does not replace a regular 40-minute MAP session for your other specific health concerns. If you are doing four Stress Sessions in a week, you can alternate and schedule your regular MAP sessions on the days between the Stress Sessions.
Regular MAP Sessions and Stress Sessions only need to be 5 hours apart.
You can do a MAP Stress Session and regular MAP session on the same day if needed — but they must be at least 5 hours apart. (So if you have a MAP Stress Session in the morning, then your regular MAP session would be in the evening.)
Where To Do The Stress Session
You can do this sitting at your kitchen table while having your morning coffee. Or in your favorite lounge chair. Or in your car on your lunch break (just park in a quiet spot where you won't worry a passer-by!).
If you wake up feeling "stressed and strung out" then you can do this MAP Stress Session in bed before you start your day.
If in the evenings you tend to kick into overdrive when you know you should go to sleep, with too much on your mind and too much left to do — sit down right where you are and have a MAP Stress Session! You can even stand if you prefer.
You can have this MAP Stress Session in the sauna, hot tub or bathtub. And we meant it when we said you can have your session in the tub with a glass of wine, if that's what will work for you!
Wherever you decide to be, you must have that time to yourself. And really let it fly. You're saying it during a Stress Session so that you're not carrying the weight of all those unsaid thoughts, fears, frustrations, pressures and stresses around with you.
What Not To Do During The Stress Session
Do not run, go for a walk, do yoga, wash the dishes, watch a movie or the news, play with the dog, snuggle with the cat, etc.
Don’t use your mobile phone for your alarm, especially if you're prone to getting distracted. This is not scroll, text or blog time.
You're not doing anything else during these 30 minutes.
This isn't a regular MAP session either, so you won't use this time to update your team on your progress with what you've been addressing in regular sessions. But it's fine to let loose with any frustrations about not making progress on what you're trying to heal, especially if that's something you struggle with or feel pressure, stress and irritation over.
One More Time: The goal of the stress session is to help you remain grounded and healthy so you're operational and able to respond to whatever comes up around you in healthy, beneficial ways.
Wondering what a "MAP team" is?
It's only the best, most affordable help for your health ever — available any time you need it, no appointment necessary! MAP: The Co-Creative Medical Assistance Program is a comprehensive medical program that addresses our physical, emotional and mental health and well-being. If you're not familiar with MAP and would like to learn more, start with Chapter 1: Personal Comments and How MAP was Developed.
Read the introduction to our MAP Series here. Buy the MAP book or ebook here. (The book is the only thing you need to get started.)
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