SOURCES OF STRESS
Election Stress: We Have All Been There
It is 9 pm on election night, and I am experiencing election stress. I am watching the results of the polls as they are reported on TV. I have to say it is a roller coaster of emotion. For those of us who are passionate about our country and who follow politics, election night can [...]
Everything Is Falling Apart
Have you every had one of those weeks where you thought to yourself, “everything is falling apart.” I have written about the stress of being a homeowner before. Over the last two years, we have had a lot of homeowner stress. We have been renovating our back and front yards for more than a year, [...]
How To Prepare for A Hurricane: Stress Management Tips
Our family spent the weekend preparing for a hurricane. My brother, my husband, and our neighbor cut down tree branches that looked likely to break. We removed things from the yard that could blow away. We filled the car up with gas. We bought non-perishable food and drinks. These were the things that we did [...]
Going Back To School: How To Manage Stress
I found myself in Kohl’s this weekend looking for a pair of shoes for my child. It was mobbed. It looked like a day after Thanksgiving sale. This is when it really hit me that it was time for kids to go back to school. Going back to school is an annual ritual for children [...]
MANAGING STRESS
Living In the Moment: Lessons Learned from A Snake In the Grass
I have to say that lately I have been quite preoccupied. It has been a very busy time for our family lately. We are still finishing up our home projects and have several trips planned this fall. I have also been lucky enough to get two grants at work, so I am busy with the [...]
Can Yoga Help You Stop Smoking? Recent Research Shows Promise
Do you smoke? Have you ever tried to quit? Quitting smoking is one of the hardest things to do. Many people use all kinds of techniques to stop smoking, like therapy and medicines. However, up until recently yoga has not been considered as a way to help people stop smoking. Recent research conducted by Dr. [...]
Moving from Beginning Yoga to Intermediate Yoga
You might remember that I set two stress management goals for 2012. One of those goals was to continue my practice of yoga. I believe that when I set a goal that it is good idea to revisit the goal to evaluate my progress from time to time. I am happy to say that I [...]
Coping With Stress of Making a Major Decision
We all make a lot of decisions every day. Most of them are pretty simple, like whether to have a sandwich or salad for lunch. They are so simple that you can probably make them in a matter of minutes or seconds. However, some decisions are considered major decisions. There are decisions that may affect [...]
HEALTH CONDITIONS
Job Strain and Heart Disease in Women
If you have been following my blog, you may have heard me talk about my job stress and heath. Like many workers these days, I feel that I have too little time in the day to finish everything. My work is very demanding. It often requires my undivided attention and challenges me in numerous ways. [...]
Stress and My Health: My Pneumonia Experience
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you have probably recognized that my posts often focus on how stress can affect a person’s health. So far, I have had fewer personal posts on how health problems can be stressful. For the most part, I have been lucky enough to have pretty good health. [...]
STRESS STORIES: Growing up with Congenital Heart Defects
If you have been following the Stress and Health Online blog, you know that we have introduced a series called “STRESS STORIES” where readers share experiences of stress and how they have coped or are coping with these experiences. I am grateful that Erin from www.365changesofme.com has agreed to share her story of growing up with [...]
Traumatic Stress Persists in Some Cancer Survivors Many Years After Diagnosis
Recently, I posted about a survey of breast cancer survivors who reported significant distress and depression. However, survivors of other types of cancer also experience significant stress. In fact, recent research published in 2011 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds that more than one third of survivors of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, another type of cancer, [...]
RECENT POSTS
The Flying Cat: What Can Happen When You Are Overwhelmed
Have you been feeling overwhelmed? That is a common experience for me. If you have been reading my blog, you know that I have done some funny things because of stress. In fact, over the last year, I lost my Ipod, was nearly in a car accident without wearing a seat belt, and caught pneumonia, among [...]
Raising Kittens: Yet Another Stressful Experience
I have started to wonder if our family is unique in going through so many stressful experiences. As I mentioned recently, my life has been really busy recently. First, there was my child’s birthday. Then we started the yard renovations. Things in the yard were progressing pretty well until we had a small problem, that [...]
Stress and Aging: Exercise May Reduce the Effects of Stress on Memory
When you are under a lot of stress, do you forget things? I certainly do. As I noted in a recent post, I tend to forget things and misplace things when I am stressed. There has been a lot of research looking at stress and memory. Some research suggests that both feeling stress and being [...]
How to Overcome the Fear of Flying in A Small Plane
I swore that I would never do this again. After a few frightening plane rides in small planes in my late 20s, I promised myself that I would avoid getting into another one. These planes tend to be bumpy in turbulent air and are really loud. Some have no bathrooms or flight attendants. Many people [...]
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