Teach Middle East Magazine Issue 5 Volume 2 May-June 2015 | Page 42

Health Tips on making key life transitions By Aisha Shakti Hakim T here are several major milestones most people are eager to achieve at some point in their lives. The more celebrated ones are: graduating from college, getting married, having children, buying your first home and relocating to a different state or country. All of these exciting life stages signal to yourself and others that you’ve successfully reached a marker of maturity, wisdom or adulthood. They can also be among the most stressful times of your life! To minimize your stress it is important to follow a few basic steps that’ll help you enjoy these milestones without becoming overwhelmed. Once you’ve made the decision to reach for a particular milestone, let’s say, moving to another country; your first step will be to create an action plan of to do items that need to be t Z