“I’ve been in super stressful situations at work where I’ve deployed the breathing tools I learned in Strive and it quickly calms me down and allows me to focus and improve my performance. Overall, I think it is really fantastic."

"By practicing through the use of Arena Strive tools and techniques when we are not physically or emotionally stressed these become the new way of responding to ourselves and slowly replace the old behaviors."

“My expectation going into Strive was I wanted some better ways to cope with stress and I wanted to do an internal exploration of whether I wanted to stay in healthcare. Now I am aware that there is a lot of science and research and how to deal with stress. Instead of feeling like the only option I had was to react, I learned I can affect how I respond, to take an active approach. It’s been very very very helpful. My husband wants to say thank you that I am re-dedicated to my current role as an NP. It’s made a big difference.”

“Thinking about taking a break from medicine was really scary, but I knew I was feeling burnt out… I thought performance was about controlling all the factors. Now it’s turned into a more introspective ‘what can I do to sustain the chaos that is going on around me and have agency over how [I] want to be and who [I] want to be.”

“My most utilized tools inside and outside the hospital are the diaphragmatic breath and physiologic sigh. It’s a fantastic way to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, so I can stabilize myself while I’m operating, when I’m encountering a difficult issue, and also to decompress after a long day.”