Is Stress Hurting Your Health?

Find stress management tips and strategies to fit into your busy day.

Heart attack survivor and nationally know wellness speaker and author, Eliz Greene examines the latest wellness information and provides implementable strategies you can use today.

Here Comes The Chainsaw

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How do you manage stress in a situation you cannot control? Here comes the chainsaw, ripping into your life and causing stress.  You didn’t choose it, and you don’t get the choice of stepping aside and saying “no thanks.”  Somehow you will need to figure out how to deal with the problem, and the stress [...]

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Your Body Is Telling You – “I’m Too Stressed!”

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Hey! Pay Attention! Five ways your body tells you it’s too stressed. Your body is smart.  If you listen to it, it will tell you what it needs and when it has had too much. Listen up! What your tummy is saying: Throwing up, diarrhea, constipation, and nausea may all be signs you are too [...]

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Is Stress the New Office Bug?

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Stress May Be Contagious! Take steps to avoid this office bug! Our new favorite source for wellness info, Greatist, shares a study revealing how our brains can absorb co-workers’ emotions, behavioral traits, and facial expressions. Sitting next to a stressed colleague may remind us of our own worries, and we sometimes mimic coworkers’ slouched shoulders [...]

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Have a Little Fun

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Pay Your Body Back for the seriousness of adult life by having a little fun. Henrietta is roosting in my house! Henrietta is a ceramic chicken who splits her time between our house and my mom’s house – because we take turns sneaking her into the other’s residence! My mom started it!  She bought Henrietta [...]

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We Have Other Plans

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Worried about holiday social commitments taking over your time? Make other plans. No kidding. Right now. Open your calendar and mark every available evening and weekend as committed to your holiday priorities.  That way when you receive an invitation you can quite honestly say, “We have other plans.” Those other plans may be a glass [...]

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Stop! I Wanna Get Off!

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Everyday life is stressful, but how well do you handle it when life gets really crazy?  Maybe work is suddenly more busy.  Maybe your family life just got more complicated.  Or, maybe, like me, you invited the madness in? What do you do when life feels like a crazy carnival ride and you just want [...]

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Have a productive last quarter!

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International Productivity Expert Neen James offers tips on making the last quarter of the year productive.  I especially like the part about paying attention to social engagements that come along with the holidays. One strategy that works for me is to determine 3 or 4 things I want to focus on over the holidays and [...]

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Kill the monkeys – Stress Reducing Tip

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Ever wonder how you suddenly agreed to do something, pay for something, or take on more that you can manage? Maybe your “monkeys” distracted you from truly listening. One of the most effective ways of controlling your workload and stressing less is listening well.  Check out this video from Covenant Leadership’s Chip Lutz, with tips [...]

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Stock Market News Induced Stress

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Are you suffering from Stock Market News Induced Stress? Sitting in the doctor’s office waiting room with my daughter yesterday, my attention was drawn to the television behind us, tuned to CNN.   Even though I wasn’t really watching it, I could feel my stress level increasing.  I don’t know about you, but the terms debt-ceiling [...]

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Is Your Job Making You Sick?

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“I have to work very fast.” “I work very hard.” “I manage competing demands of others.” “I worry about losing my job.” “I feel underused or powerless.”   Sound familiar? If so, your job may be making you sick or putting you at risk for a heart attack or stroke. Do you have high job [...]

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When Did I Become “Them”?

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What happens when you take on a new leadership role and suddenly things change? How do you handle the stress of former colleagues’ emotional responses to difficult management decisions? You get some perspective from someone who knows the ropes! My entry into life as a school board member was bumpy.  Some of my fellow parents [...]

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Busy Woman’s Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep

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“Sleep is the grease that makes your life work.” Dr. Marie Savard Dr. Savard and I presented at the same event recently, and this line from her program struck me as brilliant.  “Sleep is the grease that makes your life work. A good diet and exercise are important, but they can’t work if you aren’t [...]

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Play A Little

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What happened to recess? Adults don’t often get recess, but on Thursday morning I did… Text Message: Opera Kickball 9 & 9:30.  Don’t tell the girls! There it was. An invitation to play. I had a list a mile long of things I should do – but I really wanted to play! So I did. [...]

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Are You Heartstrong?

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We’ve all heard of being headstrong, but what does it mean to be Heartstrong? Headstrong people are full of will and cannot be governed or advised.  They don’t listen to what people tell them and often make the way more difficult for themselves. Headstrong people are led by opinion and are often inflexible. Heartstrong people [...]

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5 Things Mom Could Really Use on Mother’s Day!

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We all love the flowers and cute notes, but if you really want to make the mom in your life feel special here are a few suggestions: Mom could really use: A Nap: It’s true.  Most women walk around the world chronically sleep deprived.  A 20-minute nap can put a dent in the deficit and [...]

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