OMG! There is always so much on TV over the Christmas and New Year holidays that I simply cannot watch at the time of screening that we “V plus” it.  This is exactly the same as Sky Plus, but we have a Virgin Media account – hence V+.  What this means is that when I [...]

Happy New Year!  Well the holiday season is drawing to a close and exhausted parents are looking forward to their little ones returning to school – actually some (most?) have probably been looking forward to the schools reopening since they closed before Christmas!  And that’s simply because Christmas, indeed ANY holiday season, is a stressful [...]

Laughter is a great stress reliever.  I’ve said it before and posted about it here on several occasions.  It’s enjoyable, available to everyone and it works!  My sister emailed me this today (thanks Chris!), and I liked it so much I thought I’d share it with you.  It’s dedicated to everyone who ever attempted to [...]

I’m going to ask the question here because I’ve been wondering a lot about it recently.  Does eustress really exist? Stress is a tough part of life that affects pretty much everyone but not all stress is equal.  People perceive stress differently.  YOU might consider a jog in the park to watch the sunrise over [...]

Right now my other half is very stressed.  It’s unsurprising really because there’s so much going on in our lives.  But whenever I suggest he takes time to relax he looks at me like that’s just for wimps and not what real men do.  I suspect lots of people react like he does. But why? Why is stress [...]

Have you ever had the kind of day when nothing went your way?  Have you ever felt so frustrated with what you were not achieving that all you wanted to do was scream?    Have you ever considered that this was all in your head and you were in fact doing it all to yourself? [...]

Some people seem to suffer stress constantly, others hardly at all.  Everyone’s reaction to it is as unique as a fingerprint. And for anyone wanting to find easy to do effective stress relief techniques which can be used for the longer or short term, the internet is a great resource.  Just go online and type “effective stress relief” into the [...]

Yesterday did not start well.  I knew as soon as I switched the computer on and headed over to Google Analytics, something was very wrong.  One of my sites, which normally attracts 50 or so visitors a day had crashed to zero over the weekend.  Either the tracking script had stopped working or I had [...]

Whether you work in a busy office, teach high school kids, work with animals, or as a volunteer, whether you are self employed or work for someone else and even if you love your job, some days the stress that has been building so slowly you hardly noticed it, will suddenly become overwhelming. These simple stress busting [...]

Stress relief or high stress is a question of perception.  Whilst there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the way in which you deal with stress is a question of genetics, and of social conditioning (if you see your parents react badly to stress as a young child, you are likely to adopt [...]

Everyone knows that after a good night’s rest you feel wide awake and full of spark.  Concentration is easy and your mind works efficiently.   And the reverse it true too.  When you do not have enough sleep, your body becomes inefficient and your mind lethargic.  In fact not getting enough sleep raises the body’s stress [...]

A child laughs around 300 times a day; an adult, just fifteen.  That is a shocking fact!  And it may go at least some way to explaining why we all feel so much more stress as we grow older. Stress is a killer.  It is linked to heart disease, stroke and is implicated as a [...]