Session 1

Read text to me (audio only):

Welcome to Session 1: Symptom Management, Stress Management and Resiliency Training – We are so happy that you are here!

• The goals of this session are to help you start to identify:
  • how stress and NF symptoms affect you
  • what your personal stressors and NF symptoms are
  • and resources you can use to cope with stress and NF symptoms

We will start the session with an overview of the stress response and the relaxation response, and introduce the concept of resiliency, which is a term we use throughout the program to mean “successful adaptation to stress”.

We will also start examining some coping strategies to help with stress and NF symptoms.