Happy New Year! Starting a brand new year is usually a transformative time for many of us. After completing a full 365 days, we set brand new goals and resolutions for ourselves in order to propel ourselves forward even further on our journey. However, I think I am not alone when I say that the start of 2021 feels… well different to say the least…
Up all night scrolling through Instagram? Firing off one last work email from under the covers? Watching that last episode of your fave Netflix show at 3 AM? We’ve all been there! These days our phones, computers, TVs, and more take up a huge portion of our days - whether its for work or for pleasure - and all that social media and screen time can start to overwhelm us if we let it go unchecked. This month, we are talking about media overload and how we can keep it from impacting our time, our emotions, and our health! To kick things off, I brought sleep experts and the founders of Behavioral Sleep Medicine Associates, licensed psychologist Jacqueline D. Kloss, Ph.D., and physician Amanda Swain, M.D., back onto the show to shed some light on how media overload can impact our sleep and what we can do about it…
I think it is safe to say that that staying healthy has been on the top of everyone’s minds right now. With COVID-19 still impacting every area of our lives, we are all trying to do our best to take care of ourselves but it can be hard to focus in on what we should be doing for our bodies. That is why I am glad to have life enhancement coach Nancy Smith back on The Stress Less Show this week to share her tips for staying healthy during this pandemic…
Trouble sleeping, anyone? We all know we need those eight hours of shut-eye. Sleep is crucial for both our mental and physical health. However, especially in today’s busy and uncertain world, many of us are losing sleep night after night and it can be tough to know where to begin in changing our sleep habits for the better. That is why I have brought on The Stress Less Show, founders of Behavioral Sleep Medicine Associates, licensed psychologist Jacqueline D. Kloss, Ph.D., and physician Amanda Swain, M.D., to share their expertise with us so we can start to build healthy habits for bedtime…
Are you using food as fuel or is there more going on in your kitchen? Eating well is an absolute necessity for our physical health (of course!), but for some of us, our relationship to food and mealtime might be a bit more complicated. For some of us, we turn to food after every bad day at work or stressful situation and our eating habits can start to get away from us. If you can relate, do not worry because you are DEFINITELY not alone, (trust me!). Emotional eating can be really difficult to address within our lives, which is why I am so glad that founder of Escape from Emotional Eating, Jessica Procini, has come back on The Stress Less Show this week to share her tips on stopping emotional eating for good…
It’s time to get physical everyone! This July, we are talking about our physical health because now more than ever do we need to be taking care of our health inside and out. And when it comes to our physical health, a great place to start is with our workouts but there’s more to working out than just dropping pounds or burning calories. The reality when we approach our workouts from a new perspective, we can gain even more benefits from our time at the gym than we realize. This week, I brought holistic transformation coach Nick Deacon back on the show to share how we can use our workouts and physical activity to level up our moods and our minds - not just our bodies…
Let's face it. We are living through some very stressful times right now. No matter who we are, where we live or what we do, COVID-19 has no doubt disrupted every area of our lives and the reality is that things probably aren’t going to feel normal for a while. Major disruptions in our lives can be a bit overwhelming, but when these disruptions happen on a global scale, fear, panic, and anxiety run rampant in our minds and our communities. As a stress management coach and expert, I spend a lot of time talking about the need for reducing stress in our lives, but now more than ever managing our stress is critical in making sure we are taking care of our health - mentally and physically…
To say that facing addiction can be stressful is a major understatement. Recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol often stirs up fear, shame, guilt, anxiety, the list goes on. It takes a lot of strength to admit that we are struggling and seek help from a recovery program or expert, but that is only half the battle. When we leave a recovery program, the question that must be faced is: what comes next? Fortunately, recovery coach Mie Potter of Finding Peace came on to this week’s episode of The Stress Less Show to discuss how we can stick to our recovery even after leaving a rehabilitation program…
Dreams are mysterious things. They can be funny, embarrassing, heartbreaking, and even terrifying; but how many of us really understand what is really going on with our dreams? We have been talking about physical heath on The Stress Less Show this month and getting enough sleep is a huge part of taking care of our health. However, sometimes our dreams get in the way of our ability to get a full night’s rest. The fear, worry and maybe even trauma from our waking life seeps into our subconscious and manifests in night terrors and nightmares. That is why I brought on the creator of the app Dream Catcher, Evan Stites-Clayton, to share how lucid dreaming can be a powerful tool we can put in our toolbox to deal with our dreams and nightmares…
How many of us have done this: we just got home from the WORST day ever. Our boss screamed at us again, we were late to everything, and by the time we get home, the only thing we can think about doing is plunging face-first into a huge tub of ice cream and whatever else we have in our kitchens. We all have those comfort foods we love to turn to when we aren’t feeling great. However, while it may make you feel good for a moment, food is not going to make all that stress go away. This week on The Stress Less Show, we are talking about food and emotional eating - a huge issue for so many of us out there. I brought Jessica Procini, founder of Escape From Emotional Eating, on the show to help us learn how to stop using food as a way to cope with our stress…
We’re taking a little bit of a different approach to stress in this week’s episode of The Stress Less Show. A lot of us view stress as being public enemy #1 in our lives. I mean, who has time for all the stress headaches, lack of sleep, frustration?? It is no secret that for a lot of us, stress is really negatively affecting our ability to feel healthy and make healthy choices. However, since this month’s theme is physical health, I brought fitness and nutrition coach Nick Deacon on the show to talk about how we can actually start to see stress as a way for us to grow and even improve our bodies and minds…
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