In 1974 as a Freshman at chiropractic college in Canada the eminent stress scientist Dr Hans Selye had flown from the Université de Montréal to deliver a guest lecturer to our entire student body in Toronto on his just...
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Cortisol, like every other hormone in the body, has a specific purpose. Its main activity is to support us to respond in a positive way to a threat which may harm us. It instantly fires up the fright, fight,...
Stress is bio accumulative and it creeps up on us and it can take us out in a heart-beat. Regular holidays are health giving and life giving. They allow us to detach from our normal routine and environment to...
The Christmas/New Year period is either an over-stress and/or dis-stress time for many people or a eustress stimulating and relaxing time for others… it’s either a time of ‘bad’ stress, or a time of ‘good’ stress. For me this...
Remember that stress is “any real or imagined threat, and your body’s response to it.” Christmas celebrations can re-kindle thoughts about past tragedies and also sometimes you feel you “have to connect”with family members you do not want to...
Whenever I am delivering a keynote, a training, a workshop or a retreat I always ask my audience within the first 10 minutes, do you ask for support? This past year I have experienced some very interesting audience responses....
Men were the key participants who once populated the medieval knitting guilds of Europe, and men are once again picking up the needles. Last Sunday morning in Brisbane the Stress Management Institute® hosted their graduation for Certificate IV in...
My mother was a beautiful soul, kind, caring, loving, smart, hard working and a whip smart small business woman who was also highly innovative. She lived a good happy life, married for over 50 years and passed on peacefully...