Life is stressful and just when you think you've got over one stressful situation another one comes along, so it's no good just wishing for it all to be over. Over the past few years we've personally faced massive job problems, ill health and loss of income leading to a potential loss of our home. Instead of panicking and sinking under the stress of it all we came out fighting and have fundamentally changed our lives; we moved 300 miles north, found a new way to support ourselves and are now so much better off than we were before. Not financially maybe but certainly mentally. (And you can find out how we did that here.)

The biggest hurdle for you to overcome is this: YOU are responsible for managing your stress. You cannot control the actions of those around you, you can only control yourself. If you don't subscribe to that belief then there's not a lot of point in reading any further as there's no magic solution that doesn't require at least some effort on your part.