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If the 2024 election has your stomach in knots, you’re not alone. Many people — including politically active Hollywood insiders — are forgoing splashy Election Day parties and opting to stay glued to their couches at home. For those needing stress relief today and beyond, we’ve rounded up some of the best apps and products to help maintain your mental, emotional and physical well-being on Election Day and beyond.
Surrounding yourself with a tried-and-true arsenal of stress relief products is an easy way to incorporate mindfulness into your daily life. Plus, they’ll always be on standby for those particularly overwhelming moments, from auditions to meetings and everything in between. Some of the notable stars who are open about their battles with anxiety, trauma and the various hurdles of life include Selena Gomez via her powerful Apple TV+ documentary My Mind & Me, Demi Lovato via her YouTube series Dancing With The Devil and Lady Gaga’s memorable Netflix doc Five Foot Two.
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If you’re seeking products that help you prioritize your own wellness, we’re here to help with the following stress relief essentials for every budget.
Headspace
For an instant pick-me-up (or talk-me-calm), celebrity-backed app Headspace offers guided meditations for everyone in the family — including Star Wars and Sesame Street fans. We like that the mental health platform offers a variety of content for managing anxiety, anger, stress and other feelings. Let celebrity narrators John Legend and Eric Bana guide you to sleep, enjoy soundscapes, listen to SOS meditations and more.
MindPanda Therapy Stress Balls
An updated version of the classic stress relief gadget is found in MindPanda’s therapy stress balls. The three-pack is infused with aromatherapy fragrances that are meant to relax the mind, and each soft gel ball offers a different strength level. Squeezing the product is meant to improve blood circulation while offering tactile stimulation to keep your thoughts at bay.
Renude Reishi Cacao
We love Renude’s Reishi Cacao superfood hot chocolate mix — the perfect gift for any stressed person with a sweet tooth. It’s made with organic Peruvian cacao, organic reishi mushrooms, organic coconut sugar and monk fruit sweetener — just add hot water or your favorite milk. Reishi mushrooms are known for their potential health benefits such as reducing inflammation, boosting immunity, decreasing stress and anxiety and more.
RENPHO Eyeris 3 Eye Massager with Heat and Cooling
On sale for $60 off, Renpho’s best-selling eye massager warms up to a comfortable 104 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit to help soothe tired eyes and bring mid-migraine relaxation.
Selfmade Rumination Recovery Balm
Selfmade’s new Rumination Recovery Balm combines the benefits of skin care and therapeutic ingredients to help you destress and relieve sore muscles. (Plus, it smells like palo santo berry and lavender.) It contains lavender flower oil and arnica montana extract to help reduce redness and swelling, safflower and moringa oils for moisturizing and softening the skin, shea butter for hydrating the skin and helichrysum Italicum extract for protecting collagen and elastin from the effects of stress.
Bearaby Tree Napper
Our shopping editors are big fans of weighted blankets to help provide science-backed calm during anxious moments. Made of eco-friendly Tencel sourced from eucalyptus fibers, Bearaby’s Tree Napper weighted blanket comes in 10-, 15-, 20- and 25-pound options. Designed to help people sleep better, weighted blankets can help reduce cortisol (known as the stress hormone), boost melatonin production (which helps you fall and stay asleep) and increase serotonin (the “happy hormone”), according to the brand.
Nodpod Sleep Mask
We’re all familiar with the weighted blanket, but what about the weighted sleep mask? This lightly weighted, ultra-soft fleece sleep mask is designed to alleviate stress and anxiety.
Moon Juice SuperYou Supplements
Moon Juice strikes again with their SuperYou daily stress management supplements. Featuring four potent adaptogens traditionally used in Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine (Ashwagandha, Rhodiola, Shatavari and Amla), these supplements aim to alleviate the emotional, mental, hormonal and physical manifestations of stress. Moon Juice reommends taking two capsules daily; note that statements have not been reviewed by the FDA.
Plant People WonderCalm Mushroom Gummies
This isn’t your hippie uncle’s mushrooms. Reishi mushrooms are a popular fungus used in Eastern medicine that is widely accepted as a natural mood booster and immunity supporter. Plant People’s WonderCalm mushroom gummies are a favorite for their unique blend of superfood sources like Lion’s Mane, Cordyceps, Reishi, Turkey Tail and Chaga, which all promote cellular wellbeing and support relaxation.
Therabody Theragun Sense Massage Gun
Oprah Winfrey-approved tech wellness brand Therabody’s Theragun Sense helps to enhance post-workout recovery, alleviate daily pain and encourage you to destress, thanks to five built-in massage and breathwork routines.
Saje Natural Wellness Stress Relief Soothing Oil Blend Roll-On
One of the greats in the mindful space is Saje Natural Wellness, and their soothing oil blend roll-on is a fan favorite for a reason. This roller is blended with balancing and stabilizing essential oils — including lavender, roman chamomile and clary sage — that encourage feeling at ease. Roll along the forehead, neck and shoulders as desired.
Shashibo Shape Shifting Box
With more than 46,000 positive Amazon reviews, Shashibo’s viral fidget box must be on to something. The award-winning product features 36 rare earth magnets that transform into over 70 shapes, offering hours of mind-challenging stimulation that can help soothe stress and nerves.
Apollo Wearable
Designed by neuroscientists and physicians, Apollo’s screen-free wearable “uses safe, non-invasive touch therapy to send silent, soothing vibrations to the body that help you feel safe and in control,” per the company. The Apollo Neuro app lets you select a “vibe” to address stress, and the company says the device helps to restore balance to the nervous system. It syncs with the Apple Watch, too.
Moonbird Breathwork Device
It’s not what you think it looks like! One of THR‘s top picks from CES 2024, Moonbird’s handheld breathing coach is great for those who need a more tactile experience when it comes to meditation and breathwork. It serves as a visual and physical reminder to continue your practice: Simply place your thumb on the biometric sensor and give it a light shake, and the device expands and contracts in your hand to guide you through breathwork. You can use it with or without Moonbird’s app, and we like that you can customize the pace of the device’s “breathing.” The company is launching a version for kids, too; pre-order it at a discount here.
Lèlior Le Bonaparte Diffuser
Lèlior’s luxe Le Bonaparte diffuser comes in five chic metallic hues, making it one of the most stylish aromatherapy devices for design-loving wellness enthusiasts. It delivers water-free nano mist into spaces up to 250 square feet — pair it with the French fragrance brand’s Calming, Rest or Recovery oils to set your R&R mood.
ProsourceFit Acupressure Mat and Pillow Set
If you’re stranded without a tool insight, laying flat on your back is one of the easiest ways to get grounded. ProsourceFit has taken the foolproof exercise to the next level with its acupressure mat and pillow set, which features 6,210 acupressure points on the mat and 1,782 acupressure points on the neck pillow. With more than 46,000 Amazon reviews, fans love the set’s “bed of needles” which massage pressure points that can help relieve stress and potentially improve sleep.
The Nue Co. Forest Lungs Anti-Stress Fragrance Travel Spray
If your anxiety is triggered when traveling or in social settings try The Nue Co.’s Forest Lungs travel spray, which is an anti-stress fragrance supplement that delivers the healing effects of nature. The woody and smoky scent can be sprayed to pulse points daily, slowly and intentionally inhaling the scent for four counts.
Higher Dose Infrared Sauna Blanket
A favorite of Miranda Kerr, Gwyneth Paltrow and Amy Schumer, HigherDose’s infrared sauna blanket gives you the benefits of an infrared spa without the hefty price tag. Per the brand, it helps to boost circulation and encourage relaxation, and Paltrow herself once called it “an incredible sweat session.”
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