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How to Rewire Your Brain to Feel Good on Mondays

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you hate Mondays, you’re most certainly in good company. After a couple of days off, many of us have difficulty settling back into our routines and work duties. You may even have dread and anxiety that seeps into the weekend in the form of “Sunday scaries”. You can’t always change your […]
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Stress and Headaches

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDo you seem to get headaches frequently? Stop looking for another pill to pop and try to identify the source of these headaches, which may be brought on by stress. Chronic headaches may come from one of three sources: 1. Stress and Tension – Stress has a way of accumulating like the […]
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What Really Makes Us Stronger?

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Reading Time: 4 minutesIt may seem that wise, strong people typically have gone through a few hard times in their lives. By comparison, those who have led a very sheltered and privileged life often appear to crack more easily under pressure. But is it really true that some degree of pain and trauma can make […]
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How to Recover from Burnout and Chronic Work Stress

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Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s pretty likely you’ve heard of burnout – and you may have even experienced it. Caused by chronic work stress, it’s characterised by signs such as emotional exhaustion, lack of energy, and loss of satisfaction with work – and has been linked to a wide range of physical conditions such as cardiovascular […]
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Ingredients for Resilience

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Reading Time: 7 minutesThe word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill set? And can misperceptions about resilience hurt people, rather than help? To sum it up in a sentence: Resilience is the […]
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How Lifestyle, Mental Health and Stress Control Go Together

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Reading Time: 5 minutesOur cognition and mental well-being are crucial factors for our quality of life and put us in a good position to contribute to society. Ultimately, it can be near impossible to achieve physical goals and demanding life challenges if our brain health is not optimal. Yet most of us appear to be […]
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Holiday Stress is Contagious in Relationships

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Reading Time: 4 minutesWith the flurry of shopping, spending money and traveling to see family, stress can feel inevitable during the holidays. You might already know stress can affect your own health, but what you may not realize is that your stress – and how you manage it – is catching. Your stress can spread […]
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How Do Male and Female Minds Diverge?

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Reading Time: 5 minutesYears ago, I read an article in a scientific journal about female ambiguity, written by a gynecologist from Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Nelson Socou, with the following title: “A study on ambiguity in women.” Let’s reflect on this. Dr. Nelson explains in his article that although it is a difficult topic to […]
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Reversing Brain Damage of Chronic Stress

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Reading Time: 6 minutesA bit of stress is a normal part of our daily lives, which can even be good for us. Overcoming stressful events can make us more resilient. But when the stress is severe or chronic – for example, caused by the breakdown of a marriage or partnership, death in the family, or […]
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The Entertainment Trap

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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Stats Tell the Story. Is it time to dial down how much time we spend with our smartphones? Constant media usage has plunged our attention span from 12 seconds in 2000 to just 8 seconds today. The attention span of a goldfish is 9 seconds. Many children and youth are “awash” […]
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Hurried, Worried, and Buried

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Reading Time: 4 minutesI met Frank on a crowded business flight. As he lowered his breathless, oversized body into the narrow seat, wiping perspiration from his brow, he activated his smart phone with one hand while whisking his laptop out of its case with the other. Not yielding a second to take in his surroundings, […]
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Why You Should Use Up Your Vacation Leave

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Reading Time: 5 minutesWe are currently at the peak of the holiday season, but instead of drinking coconut water on the beach, hiking the mountains and enjoying what life has to offer, a surprising number of people are reluctant to take time out from work. Recent research shows one in five people in Ireland do […]
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