Anxiety is a natural part of life. So natural that every person has suffered from some form of anxiety in his or her lives. There are people with sporadic episodes of anxiety and people who have anxiety on most days of their life. While there are medications that can curb anxiety, most are highly addictive…
Numerous studies have created a wider understanding of the damaging effects sugar can have on physical health. But not as many people are aware of the impact that sugar can have on their mental health. In addition to causing an inflated waistline, and chronic diseases, high sugar consumption can increase the risk of anxiety and…
Balancing your mind and body supports your overall health and deep breathing. This can be done with exercises like yoga, Pilates, meditation, Tai Chi and QiGong can help. Deep breathing included with mind and body exercises can help you lose weight, feel great, reduce stress. The oxygen that you take in through deep breathing from…
Stress is something that affects us all, and knowing specific skills to prevent chronic stress is a start. Chronic stress is long-term stress that goes unimpeded over a long period of time. The fear, flight or fight response is on for an extended time and adrenaline is pumping constantly. This places fatigue on the kidneys…
Essential Oils for Stress Relief We spend most of the day stressing over things that we cannot control. This blog will introduce you to ways in which essential oils can be used for stress relief. We cannot change our work pressures, family obligations, a fast paced and hectic life, technology overload and social commitments. But…
The Catastrophic Consequences of Stuffing Your Emotions In the case of severe injury, the body can go into shock. Going into shock blocks the sensations of pain and numbs the consciousness so the body can recover. Too often this is what we do to deal with our painful emotional state. And doing so, can…
5 Effective & Healthy Ways to Deal with Loneliness Being alone and feeling lonely are two very different things. You can be sitting with a group of friends or standing in a room of full of people and still feel extremely lonely and isolated. It may be a debilitating emotional state, but the dull…
Stress has a negative impact on a person’s ability to remember things. Retrieving things that have been learned and encoding memory are the major impacts of stress on the body. Under times of increased stress, the body secretes epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol from the adrenal glands. These act on the neurotransmitters of the brain…
The American lifestyle is rife with stress, with things like caring for the sick and the elderly, heavy job pressures, hectic lifestyles and financial difficulties being a part of our everyday lives. A survey done by the American Psychological Association (the Stress in America Survey), approximately 42 percent of Americans indicate that their level…
Between careers, kids, aging parents, relationships, finances and who knows what else, women have a lot of things that can potentially cause great stress in their lives. Stress can cause our immune systems to become compromised, depression, weight gain or loss, loss of sex drive, difficulty with concentrating and just plain crabbiness. What can…
Women are perhaps under more stress when compared to men. Not only do they have to deal with work stressors and financial stressors, but also they often are the parent that needs to deal with the stressors of being the caregiver to their children. Here are ten reasons why women need to address their stress…
Overall, men are generally under a great deal of stress much of the time. Men need to deal with the pressures of working at least one or more jobs, financial issues, parenting issues, and relationship issues. Another reason that stress management is so important for men is because they tend to not talk about their…