5 stress-relieving hints to stay sexy through economically challenging times

1. Don’t panic and rush to shift your money without sound financial advice. Or another way of stating the same ides is if you feel the urge to immediately act, don’t. Take a deep breath. Take a walk. Talk to someone,  sleep on your decision (even if you have trouble sleeping) and let your fear subside.

2. Talk to your family, especially your grown kids. If you’ve been helping them, now is the time when they can stretch some and pay you back. There is no shame in asking them for help. After all, you have given to them for years.

3. Continue with exercise, keep your hobbies, visit your friends, remain active in your community and/or place of worship, and keep whatever routines and connections that have always kept you stable. You need to think about other things besides money. Otherwise, you can obsess yourself into emotional despair and even illness.

4. Try not to irrationally lash out. When people are scared, they tend to freeze like ice and are unable to think, they may curl up in a ball or lash out at loved ones. While none of these are useful behaviors, the latter is particularly unhelpful and unfair. It helps to understand that when someone hits out at a loved one, it is almost always because in the relationship is where they feel safest to unload their concerns. Think twice before anger eliminates kindness. Being with loved ones and keeping community remains one of the best antidotes to anxiety, depression and obsessive thinking that exists.

5. Most importantly, go back to home base. Reach out and make love. Whether it’s intercourse, or just talking, touching or keeping connected. It’s all sex. Love still makes the world go round. And it’s never needed more than when times are not booming. Doom and gloom may have a basis in real issues and may sneak up and catch you unaware. Reach out. Touch, love and make love. The life and sexy relationship you save, can be your own.

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