Stress is any challenge to normal balance

What is stress?

Stress is any challenge to normal balance. Stress is pressure or tension exerted on something (or someone). A state of strain or tension. A constraining force or influence. Stress occurs in response to a stressor–a thing (person, place, event,…any “stimulus”) … Read More

The Drama Triangle

Sometimes when we’re in stress we jump onto the Drama Triangle in particular conflict roles. Watch to see where you might be on the Drama Triangle and how you can spin your triangle to the Freedom Triangle. Transcript: Hello, this … Read More

STRESS is a major risk factor for suicide

Suicide is top of mind for many with the passing of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. The “last person in the world” you’d expect to do that. “They had everything.” Again, I have no insight into either of their lives. … Read More

Top Tips to Tackle Stress

Here Bev Roberts and I riff on the top tips to tackle stress. from Bev: In this Top Tips I speak with author, speaker, functional medicine specialist and CEO of Vibrant Again; Dr. Heather Clark, PharmD about how to tackle root … Read More

The Problem With Newsletters

I love you guys…but I don’t love sending you newsletters. Why? Well, it pains me to admit it, but I am a type A control freak with serious perfectionist tendencies. This doesn’t make me a bad person; in fact, it … Read More

How to Know for Sure if You Have Burnout

Do you suspect that you might have burnout, but want to know for sure? Or maybe haven’t been feeling like yourself lately and your friends and family have lots of ideas and well-meaning advice for you.

What happens if you do nothing?

Adrenal fatigue is caused by chronic stress.   In our previous blog “What is Stress?” we described the 3 main types of stress that people experience.  It’s important that you identify what stress you are experiencing most often and begin to … Read More

What is Stress?

When most of us think about stress, we think about family, job, or financial stresses. However, there are actually three different types of stress.