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How to Keep Work Stress from Taking Over Your Life
Recognize it Write it out Recharge Manage your time Balance work and play Reframe thoughts Rely on others Meet your needs Relax regularly Avoid gossip Embrace the imperfect Take a trip Talk to your boss Seek help Work-related stress can get the best of us all. Emails, Slack messages, phones ringing off the hook, your …
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How to Escape the Cycle of Negative Thinking
KEY POINTS It can be easy to get overwhelmed and discouraged by negative thoughts. Trying to always think positively isn’t a realistic solution to negative thinking. Reframing thoughts can help control negative thought patterns and improve one’s perspective. We all think negatively sometimes. We’re having a bad day, and it feels like the world is …
What to Do When You Get Triggered
KEY POINTS Healthy boundaries and self-esteem make us less reactive to other people. When someone pushes your buttons, learn to manage that person so that you’re not easily triggered and manipulable. Anger often covers up real hurt or vulnerability, blame may be hiding guilt, and self-blame may be displaced anger we have toward someone else. …
How Female Hormones Affect Exercise — at Every Age
During each life stage, the exercise you choose can either help or hinder your hormonal balance. Regardless of age, it’s important for women to appreciate the complexity of the hormonal changes they experience throughout their lifetime. Given that each life stage may present unique hormonal side effects and challenges, exercise must be adapted appropriately to …
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18 Signs That Stress May Be Getting to You
KEY POINTS The stress response involves every aspect of one’s being: mind, body, behavior, and emotions. The stress response works best for short-term challenges; longer-term stress will wear a person down. Social withdrawal can be one sign of stress, as dealing with people may feel like “too much.” The results are in from the American …
Why Does Stress Make My Stomach Hurt?
The surprising biological link between the gut and brain. KEY POINTS The brain and the gut are wired together biologically in ways that make people’s stomachs hurt when they’re stressed. Stress can trigger reflux, a knot in the stomach, nausea, bloating, cramping, and the urgent need to go to the bathroom. The best approach to …
4 Science-Backed Reasons to Prioritize Your Sleep
Sleep can improve mood, metabolic health, immunity, and so much more. KEY POINTS Getting good sleep is one of the most powerful things we can do for the health of our brains and bodies. Better sleep may be protective against mood disorders. Good sleep is linked to improved memory and better immune balance. Quality sleep …
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When Is the Best to Weigh Yourself & Why?
When Is the Best Time to Weigh Yourself and Why? To accurately monitor your weight, consistency is key. If you want to be aware of when you’re losing, gaining, or maintaining weight, the best time to weigh yourself is the same time you weighed yourself the last time. Your weight fluctuates over the course of a day. To track …
10 Healthy Sleep Hygiene Habits
Do you ever find yourself staring at the ceiling, wondering if you’ll ever fall asleep? Or maybe you wake up thinking it’s time to get up, but it’s actually 2 a.m. If you’re in need of better sleep, it may be time to consider your sleep hygiene — and how your habits may be preventing …
3 Recipes to Boost Libido ( IHC Weight loss Maintenance only)
Garlic Skillet Steak and Onions Serves 4 – Ingredients 1 pound boneless beef round steak, trimmed of visible fat 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, to taste Olive oil 1 large red onion, thinly sliced 3 cloves garlic, pressed 1/4 cup Leanne’s Easy Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing (*see recipe below) 4 cups broccoli florets, steamed …
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