Turning the clock back on stress and retraining your brain: Advice from The Conveyancing Foundation’s first webinar

Stress management experts Angus Lyon and Hannah Beko discussed valuable tips and techniques to combat stress at The Conveyancing Foundation’s first #BeKindWeCare webinar.

The Foundation recently launched the #BeKindWeCare campaign to help those in the property and conveyancing industry suffering rising levels of mental health concerns, following an unprecedented year. It promotes kindness and wellbeing in the industry and provides a resource hub of information in association with LawCare, Agents Together and the Mindstep Foundation.

Angus Lyon, a property lawyer for 30 years, now working as counsellor is a specialist in ‘beating burnout’. Comparing the warning signs of stress to hours on a clock face, he said it was hard to see the burnout coming but it was “possible to wind back the clock.”

Advising people to appreciate it was better to learn how to cope rather than expect a stress-free life, he talked about how we could all be “more proactive in accepting the warning signs of stress.”

Lawyer and author Hannah Beko also focused on recognising the symptoms of stress such as sleep issues, lack of patience, memory issues and procrastination.

She believes that legal, property and conveyancing professions are particularly prone to stress because so many people try and be the “superhero” that does it all.

“We are trying to be everything to everyone and we can’t delegate,” she said.

She talked about the origins of stress in the brain and how we could “take some of that control back” by using tactics such as positive language and controlling negative thoughts.

She discussed techniques such as “journaling” where you write down a worry list to ease the pressure on your mind and practising gratitude and affirmation to “retrain your brain” as well as introducing meditation and a positive morning routine.

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