Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

Quiz: Are you off balance? take the CNN quiz.

A third of U.S. employees are chronically overworked and about half have been overworked at some point in the past month, according to a study by the Families and Work Institute. A successful career and a successful personal life can be a delicate balancing act.
Life in general [...]

Walking disaster? Why some are accident prone
Steve Roe’s catalogue of self-induced injuries reads like something out of The Spanish Inquisition Handbook: fractured skull, torn rotator cuff, shattered fingers, broken wrists, fractured elbows, torn muscles, sulfuric acid burns, self-stabbings, multiple broken noses and, as of last month, a ruptured tendon in his ankle.
“I didn’t [...]

Lean times mean tighter pants for stress eaters
Excess worries and time weighing on many Americans

Leslie Fuller tried to stick to her shopping list on a recent grocery run. Instead, she found herself venturing down the candy aisle, throwing bags of Hershey’s Miniatures and M&M’s into her cart.
“I should just put them down on the [...]

Darker outlook for night owls, study finds
A new study, published in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, bears out Africa’s experience: People who tend to stay up late, the so-called “night owls,” have a darker outlook than those who bounce out of bed at the crack of dawn, the “morning larks.”

This might be true for some [...]

Speeding up brain networks might boost IQ
Intriguingly, the researchers found no link between the total number of connections in a subject’s brain network and their IQ. “We show that more intelligent people don’t have more connections, but they have more efficiently placed connections,” he says.
“If it’s genetic, genes work through biology and, once we [...]

Mindfulness training busts stress
The program lasted eight weeks and participants were followed for an additional three months. Williams said they found those who received the mindfulness training “had significantly less daily hassles, psychological distress and significantly fewer medical symptoms” — like lower blood pressure and fewer aches and pains — than those who were [...]