How to Beat Holiday Stress
What if the holidays could cause less stress? Does anyone else feel at the top of the roller coaster ride, just waiting for the mad…
Can Thanksgiving Reduce Your Stress?
How a break in routine and some gratitude at Thanksgiving can lower stress According to the National Institutes of Health, “Taking the time to feel…
4 Ways to Cope with Election Stress
Feeling anxious about how the election will turn out? Are you dealing with election stress? If the stress of the upcoming election has you tossing…
How to deal with Stress Dumping
What do you do when someone dumps their stress all over you? I talked with several people about the stress dumping and the challenges of…
Rewards are Motivation for Change
Are you having trouble making a change to reduce stress or be more healthy? In this excerpt from Stress-Proof Your Life find out what really…
Discover Your Stress Recovery Personality
Are you an IGUANA or a BORDER COLLIE? What do you need to disconnect from the source of stress and recover from pressures you can’t…
Uncertainty Causes Stress: How to cope
Stress caused by uncertainty can be paralyzing. We are living under unprecedented uncertainty. There is a good reason for stress, anxiety, and jangling nerves. Your…
Stressing About How You Look?
Sometimes we all need reminders about self-kindness! This month I turn 57. Somewhere along the road, I became hypercritical of a body that carried twins,…
Why is stress a problem for your health and productivity?
We can’t alleviate all stress, and we wouldn’t want to even if we could. Some stress is natural and necessary; it is what gives us the zing of energy to get things done. The zing is the result of the hormone cortisol flooding the system when the body detects danger or stress. Trouble comes when that zing becomes a constant thrum, continually triggering the cortisol response rather than allowing it to ebb and flow as we need it.
