Reduce Your Stress Levels

Moms like us are familiar with the tension that the holidays can bring. There’s too much to do in too short a time: family gatherings, kids’ recitals, gift buying, secret Santa. From crowded shopping malls to that critical dinner ingredient you forgot, running around causes a lot of stress. Traffic, snowstorms, drunk drivers and other shoppers make driving a frightening endeavor, and the strain to get everything "just right" can make many of us too tightly wound to enjoy the events we plan.

Wellness is all about overall health, of the body, mind, and spirit. What better way to achieve this than to tap into your mind to make necessary changes? I spoke with Aimee Fuller, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, to learn the benefits of hypnotherapy and how they can help improve your life

Yoga is often praised for the physical benefits it provides. It can strengthen your body, improve flexibility, aid in weight loss, and generally make you feel good. But just how good can it make you feel? It’s benefits can go beyond physical health and impact emotional health as well; maybe enough to keep your sanity intact.

We live in a time where busy is a good thing, almost sought after. A time where anything less than multi-tasking is unacceptable. The problem with that mentality is it creates a lot of stress. It’s stressful to have a full calendar, multiple responsibilities, and a to do list that never seems to end. Stress wreaks havoc on our minds and bodies, and it can manifest into something called adrenal fatigue.

How often do you feel stressed? When you sit and think about the sources of that stress, you can probably easily list them: your job, your kids, your marriage, the bills, the laundry, the dishes. They all add up very quickly.

I knew yesterday was going to be super-stressful. During all this I had to fit in five healthy meals and snacks. Here are a few tips for keeping yourself healthy even when stress tries to take you down for the count!

Stress. The word itself hold so many connotations that we probably get stressed just thinking or talking about it. This past Monday night, we were joined by Dr. Kathy Gruver of The Alternative Medicine Cabinet who provided us with really great tips for reducing our stress levels.

Are you ready for the holidays? Often we find that this is a time of great joy – we are able to see extended family we maybe don’t see very often, have delicious meals, gather to celebrate, and share gifts with one another. But with great joy can also come great stress. Whether it’s because your family puts the FUN in dysfuncational, they’re just plain crazy, you have a wildly hectic schedule, or you’re worried about any number of issues we see in this seasons, it can be a very stressful time. To help our community to prepare for this, we’re bringing a very special guest on our show this week – she’s a psychotherapist and yoga instructor who sees her clients both on the couch and on the mat and will teach us how we can defeat holiday stress with fitness.