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.

Stress: A Sticky Situation

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Stress Makes Sticky Platelets Most of us know stress causes your body to react in a “Fright or Flight” manner.  Your heart rate increases, cortisol is produced, and – you might be surprise to learn – your blood gets more sticky. One of the body’s more ingenious reactions to a threatening situation is to make [...]

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How To Choose the Best Massage For You

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Swedish or Deep Tissue? Which massage is right for you? Massage is a great stress reliever and an excellent way to find your Moment of Ahhh…, but which type should you choose? Need help deciding? Check out this new video from Jillian Michaels -  one of the leading health and wellness experts in the country. [...]

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Find A Moment of “Ahhh”: Stress Management Tip

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Take time to relax and let your body recover! When was the last time you allowed yourself to relax to the point you said, “Ahhhh…”? Hectic schedules, demands of work and home, and the never-ending barrage of information creates stress.  One of the best ways to reduce stress, and decrease the amount of cortisol in [...]

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No Is The New Yes

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Productivity is about deletion… not addition! An article from International Productivity Expert Neen James sparked my interest this week.  She contends the key to being more productive is saying no more often.  In my stress management programs I always share the importance of saying no as a key to focusing on the things you determine [...]

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Benefits of Being Done

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When was the last time you celebrated being done? There aren’t many finish lines in adult life.  Parenting, household chores, work projects – most of the things we do are on-going, without a clear end. Plus, most of us juggle multiple responsibilities, leaving little time to celebrate finishing one thing before having to move on [...]

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Walk on the Wild Side

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Get Outside to Reduce Your Stress! One of the many perks of my job is getting to visit beautiful places. Today I awoke to singing birds at the Hidden Lake Bed and Breakfast in Jonesboro, Illinois.  This evening I’ll be presenting Juggling Lessons for Life to hundreds of women at the Healthy Woman event sponsored [...]

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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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