Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-23-play-stress_N.htm
USA Today is right on with this article. Play frees the mind and unleashes the nervous and pent up energy in the body.  Children can often cope with traumatic events better than adults because they have not lost the ability to use their imagination and can still play. Adults tend to be rigid in body [...]

Time magazine’s June 6, 1983 cover story called stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties” and referred to it as our leading health problem. Now with over 80% of the US population stressed out over money, this 1983 declaration needs to be updated. ‘Stress the Epidemic of the New [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/11/domestic.violence.personality/index.html
Just because the abuse ends, it does not mean that the pain and suffering end.  I have had some very traumatic experiences in my life. And it takes time to heal. Working with numerous patients, I found that the recovery rate varies. In the worst cases, physical and mental health can suffer for years and [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/10/headaches.weather/index.html
Almost 90 percent of women and about 70 percent of men get tension headaches, the Mayo Clinic says.
That is amazing but not surprising especially now. One fact is that very few people are trained to relax and reduce stress and tension. Another is that the level of fear, pressure and uncertainty are so high [...]