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…
Adaptogenic herbs and spices help to support our stress response system. Everyone is talking about the stress they are experiencing or have experienced and the impact it has on their lives. To begin with, stress is a real thing and even medical doctors are beginning to realize that. Besides, it is unavoidable for many of…
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…
10 Reasons Women Need to Address Their Stress Levels 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…
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…
Do you schedule down time for relaxation in your life? No? Then something seriously needs to change. If you view relaxation as a waste of productivity hours, you have no idea what you’re missing. Not only should relaxation be mandatory, but regularly scheduling breaks for yourself will only improve productivity over the long haul,…
Women’s Wellness – Finding “ME” Time Most women are pre-programmed to take care of everybody else before themselves. This is why it is important that part of women’s wellness is finding “me” time? If they are not able to sustain their health, how can they be effective. Taking time off to do something you…