Over the past couple years I’ve seen firsthand what a toll burnout can take on our health if we’re not careful; chronic stress suppresses our immunity, depletes our energy and wears on our bodies and minds. Strangely though, sometimes stress actually feels good in the moment. Running at a high speed, checking off one thing […]

How’s August treating you? Has it been slow at work with lots of people out of the office and plenty of summer Fridays? Or unseasonably busy and chaotic?  My month’s been the latter thanks to a looming project deadline, and I’ve heard the same from plenty of people. However your August is shaping up, I […]

“Do you ever get pushback when you advise people to reduce their stress? Doesn’t that cut into productivity and make you less competitive?” I got this question once and it really surprised me — the negative impacts of stress on health and happiness are so obvious to me at this point that it hadn’t occurred […]

A few months ago, I gave a talk on wellness at a dinner for 40 people. The talk was to be given as part of an awards ceremony at a private club, and the coordinators asked me to help plan a healthy menu for the dinner to go along with my presentation on how to […]

Being busy can help keep us in a productive, motivated state. But when we have so much to do that we start to feel overwhelmed, our performance can start to slip. Think about it – The more tasks that you’re trying to manage, the more energy you need to expend towards just remembering everything there […]