Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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Adaptogens are a little-known type of supplements that are rising in popularity. They claim to improve moods, boost energy, provide mental clarity and reduce stress. GO Healthy chief naturopath Peta Teuma explains how... Essentially, adaptogens are a

Healthy Food Guide

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How many times a day do feel stressed? It might be when you’re stuck in a traffic jam or trying to meet work deadlines while juggling family commitments — not to mention the ongoing challenges of a global pandemic. Even watching the news can trigger

CosBeauty Magazine

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you have nothing if you don’t have your health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO): ‘Mental health is an integral part to health; indeed, there is no health without mental health.’ But when was the last time you thought of improving you

Psychologies

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Life is full of wonder and demands, a melting pot of happiness and sadness, ups and downs. With all life’s events come different feelings and emotions, yet as a society, we are so busy rushing around that we rarely pause for breath before moving on t

Men's Fitness UK

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Phones we never switch off. Social media accounts taking up an increasing amount of our time. Work days that start before breakfast and barely end before bedtime. Demands on our time that can seem impossible to get on top of. We are living in a world

Woman & Home

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If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that the past couple of years have been exceptionally hard. COVID-19 has left us on the brink of a mental health crisis, with an international study* finding that 41% of the UK population is at psycholog

Psychologies

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There’s no denying that women tend to shoulder more daily work than men. Even when we are the primary breadwinners, we still do the lion’s share of housework and childcare. ‘We also do more “emotional labour” – the job of keeping everyone happy,’ say

MOTHER EARTH NEWS

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While people deal with stressors in different ways, our bodies all react quite similarly. Your adrenals, which are glands located above each kidney, control specific hormone production. One of these hormones is called “cortisol” and is released as yo

New Idea

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Don’t get us wrong, if we could all go through life stress-free it’d be much better for our health and happiness. But there are ways you can harness stress for the better. “For many people, stress can feel overwhelming, causing an immense amount of

Mornings with Jesus

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MY HUSBAND JOKES THAT MY mind is a scary place. My thoughts dart from subject to subject. I’m prone to spinning out imaginative possibilities. Because of my busy brain, I often think of potential obstacles and solutions before I encounter them. That

Post South Africa

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WITH the sudden emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic last year and the impact of the second wave, it was perhaps inevitable that cases, if not swathes of psychological distress, would emerge. And how you manage stress is crucial in finding some form of

NPR

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A nonprofit called Turnaround for Children helps schools meet the needs of children facing poverty and adversity.

Futurity

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Reevaluating how you perceive stress can make a big difference to your mental health, general well-being, and success, according to new research. In a new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, researchers trained adolescents and y

The Atlantic

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Reports of babies and toddlers being left in the care of slightly older children in detention facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border reveal an ongoing atrocity.

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

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Every thought, emotion and action we take affects our hormone levels. What we’re thinking, what we’re doing, our intention behind why we’re doing it, and how we’re feeling while we’re doing it, all impact how our hormones release into the bloodstream

Chat

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Feel like you’re taking on too much? You’re not alone – research reveals 77% of women are struggling to keep up with the stress of work and socialising. A further one in five of us admits to overcommitting to others, while forgetting to set aside tim

Futurity

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Although natural disasters can cause horrific damage to homes and infrastructure, they can bring married couples closer together, at least temporarily. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind study that looked at couples in the Houston area before an

Futurity

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As millions of kids head back to the classroom, an expert has advice for how schools can support mental and emotional well-being. After more than a year of remote learning, many students are hoping for a return to normalcy this school year. Yet child

Woman's Day

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Adaptogens are a little-known type of supplements that are rising in popularity. They claim to improve moods, boost energy, provide mental clarity and reduce stress. GO Healthy chief naturopath Peta Teuma explains how... Essentially, adaptogens are

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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The festive season is upon us and, for many, it’s a time where there is a tendency to swing from one extreme to another when it comes to health. Or we might have been living for most of this year not really looking after our physical health with too

Futurity

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Spending just 20 minutes in nature can significantly lower stress hormone levels, researchers say. The benefits of experiencing nature on your stress apply even if you’re simply gardening, doing yardwork, or sitting quietly in the backyard. The findi

Saturday Star

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EXPERTS are concerned that finding the motivation to kick off 2021 might be harder than any other year in recent history as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe. In January every year, scores of people struggle to leave the comforts of t

Weekend Argus Saturday

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IN JANUARY each year, scores of people from all walks of life struggle to leave the comforts of the festive season and return to their everyday lives. For some, the stress that work, school, gym and other fundamentals of a daily routine brings is so

Oxygen

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life can be intense, and the past six months have been exceptionally disquieting on many levels. Whether it’s been the pandemic itself or the taxing fallout of illness, quarantine, financial uncertainty or isolation, it’s fair to say that people are

Simply Woman & Home

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Lack of sleep always magnifies stress and negative feelings. If you’re lacking in zzzs, try the online course from sleepio.com, created by sleep expert Professor Colin Espie. Also try stress-fighting Healthspan Opti-Omega 3 1200g, £13.95 for 60, heal

Cosmopolitan India

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54% of Americans are cooking more now than ever. SOURCE: HUNTER PR FOOD STUDY “I was foam rolling my randomly sore hip on the floor of my apartment when I got a text from a friend: ‘I’m leaving the city, Susie!’I was shocked to hear that she, a dieha

Woman & Home South Africa

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✣ WORK IT OUT Try an indoor workout – run up and down the stairs, or do brisk housework to burn up cortisol and work off that adrenaline. ✣ STAY CALM As you breathe out, you signal to the parasympathetic nervous system to instruct your body to calm

Independent on Saturday

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IN JANUARY each year, scores of people from all walks of life struggle to leave the comforts of the festive season behind and return to everyday lives. For some, the stress that work, school, gym and other fundamentals of a daily routine bring is so

Australian Mountain Bike

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As an athlete-turned coach (who still enjoys pinning a number on intermittently!) there have been many experiences throughout my athletic life that I have only seemed to make sense of now the shoe is on the other foot. Perhaps it’s my personality of

Women's Fitness

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• ‘We experience so many micro stressors throughout the day. Taking regular 15-minute breaks to stretch, breathe, meditate and walk can bring stress levels down to help get our body into parasympathetic mode and away from fight or flight responses.’