Stress: there’s no escaping it.

Life, with all its uncertainties, is filled to the brim with potential stress triggers. Especially this year, when just about everything we’ve grounded ourselves in seems to be shifting on a near-daily basis.

However, just because we encounter stressful situations doesn’t mean that stress has to consume us.

Here are 3 different simple mindfulness practices to fight stress in your daily life.

Journaling is so much more than chronicling the details of your days. Journaling is a powerful mindfulness practice that offers proven health benefits.

A 1986 study on the benefits of expressive writing concluded that “writing about earlier traumatic experience was associated with both short-term increases in physiological arousal and long-term decreases in health problems.”

Since that initial study, many more have been completed, examining the role of expressive writing—i.e. journaling—to influence both our physical and psychological health.