Learn How Not Be a Victim, Persecutor or Rescuer

January 18, 2010

Stress affects us in many ways. One common way is it puts us into a pattern of being a victim, persecutor or rescuer. In three recent posts, I discussed how this Drama Triangle works and how to not be at the effect of it. Learn how to see it happening with yourself and others. Learn [...]

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Lower Your Computer Stress

December 11, 2009

Image via Wikipedia We all are trying to squeeze more production out of our limited resources. Computers can increase or decrease our production and our stress. A new study out says visual reminders are more a distraction then an aid. Rather than having a visual reminder, create an audio reminder. Your mind is less interrupted [...]

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They Lied to Us… Prozac Doesn’t Work

December 3, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Deepak Chopra, MD wrote a recent article about new research showing our faith in antidepressants is ill founded. He writes about a study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine that states, “More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. “ These researchers found molecular evidence that [...]

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Better Healthcare Reform

December 1, 2009

Image via Wikipedia For those who want to include “direct the national healthcare agenda toward a health-oriented, integrated system, ensuring all people access to the full range of safe and regulated conventional, complementary, and alternative healthcare professionals” go to The Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC). This organization is getting Congress to include holistic health in [...]

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Stress Manage Comes to the iPhone

November 28, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Deepak Chopra, MD created an app, Stress Free for your iPhone to deal with stress. NPR has an interview Chopra on the features of the app, including its ability to tell jokes. It is great we are using some of the technology that creates our stress to reduce it. Now if we [...]

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The Downside of Exercise on Stress

November 27, 2009

Cover of The Complete Book of Running A recent article in the New York Times explains how exercise allows you, or at least the rats dunked into cold water to deal with stress better. There is a catch. My clinical experience is that this does not hold true and in fact has the opposite effect [...]

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StressedOut.org Is Number One

November 11, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I received an email that my request to create an Alltop page devoted to stress was completed. What I didn’t expect was StressOut.org would be in the number one on the page. Alltop is the go to site on the last information on any topic. Check out the page to get the [...]

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Mindfulness Bibliography

October 27, 2009

If you ever question the efficacy of Mindfulness Stress Reduction – check out this link from the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at U.C.L.A.’s Semel Institute.  They have put together an extensive bibliography  of research done between 1975 through early-2009.

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Are You Stressed Out?

September 7, 2009

Felling like rat on a treadmill, this New York Times article explains why with stress these animals were more likely to do repetitive activities and be less creative. Sound familiar? Not new to many of you, the constant stress of modern life wears on our brains, endocrine systems and our whole body. This article weaves [...]

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