Keep calm and don’t stress yourself out

It’s stress awareness month, in case any of us were unaware of what being stressed feels like.

It’s the feeling you get when your inbox becomes flooded with stupid emails from PR companies sending you made up research on how to prevent stress by doing things like breathing and drinking camomile tea, so that instead of feeling serene, you feel your heartbeat increasing and you have to fight the urge to throw your laptop out the window.

If, like me, you have spent years curating — and I am genuinely sorry for using that annoying word outside of an art gallery — a life that is as stress free as it can possibly be without identifying as an actual tree sloth, how do you deal with stress when it occasionally but inevitably comes along? Not very well, is the short answer.