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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the main ways that causes so much stress in everyday life is taking too much on.  We all do it.  There are time demands from children, parents, work and home life to balance. And relaxation time “me time” and “us time” too if you can schedule it in.  Then there is the daily commute to work or [...]

It is a well known fact that stress kills, or rather stress induced diseases kill.  But research has shown that in fact boredom kills more people every year in the western world than stress does!  So it is important to manage both your stress levels AND boredom levels at the same time.  That may sound [...]

It’s a sad fact that when you are overweight, the urge to eat is harder to ignore under stressful conditions. But it is not widely known that stress is so intimately linked to weight that you can actually achieve long-term weight loss simply by learning how to reduce stress in your life – and following [...]