Relieve Stress and Sarah Palin

By Dr Jeff Bailey

The local paper has outlined seven challenges for Sarah Palin, our returning Governor of Alaska, five days after the presidency was decided. This article explores the stress that underlies these challenges. I discussed federal relations and eternal suspicion of Sarah's motives in a previous article. In this article are covered several of the other challenges.

The Challenges Increase and the Stress Builds For Sarah Palin

Katie Couric, in her very influential CBS interview, laid the groundwork for the next challenge - political seasoning. One of the outcomes of the campaign was the feeling that Sarah did not have sufficient national and international experience. Will she try to balance gaining this experience against running the state - and how much stress will this cause her - to be true to herself and Alaska?

There is little doubt that working with the State legislature will no longer be as stress free as it was prior to her placement on the vice presidential ticket. Carving up the Republican good old boy network will not have helped in her political party and local resentment over the sacking of Walt Monegan will keep the pressure on her for some time to come.

One of the challenges for Sarah is to work out how to deal with friends and family. While she might have appointed long term friends to important positions and permitted her husband Todd to be too involved in the business of government, any similar moves in the future will bring her under immediate pressure.

A more interesting source of stress is the media, especially after her trenchant criticisms of the national press. On her return to Alaska it was great to see that she spent time talking openly and freely with the press. Her way of reducing and relieving stress over recent criticisms by the press was to respond to some of their charges and unjustified critiques. To continue to relieve stress and to get her message out there clearly and openly, she will need to return to her frank, honest, transparent self.

No one doubts that she will do this, not only to manage the stress, but because she has a strong sense of pride and purpose. At the end of the day, leaving aside admirers and detractors, Sarah Palin has earned a very significant place in American political history. She was the first woman to have the opportunity for the American people to vote her to the vice presidency of the United States of America - and this is a phenomenal achievement for a young woman from Wasilla, Alaska.

Dr Jeff, a psychologist, writes about stress. In this article he describes the sustained pressure on Sarah Palin as the returning governor of Alaska. People need to learn how to manage stress and they need help to relieve stress. Dr Bailey integrates sound research with extensive clinical knowledge from his therapy with his patients. He works hard to make his articles practical and helpful but all of his articles are based on sound research evidence. To find out more about how he helps people with stress relief and to learn effective ways to manage and reduce stress, visit his website http://www.drjeffbailey.com to get a free book that will introduce you to effective stress management.

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