The truth is you can have so many possessions, so much stuff that it can interfere with the quality of your life.  Clutter can create tension and stress. It can heighten the tension and stress you are already feeling.

Stress can have a significant impact on the amount of sleep you are able to get.  When your body gets stuck in the fight-flight-freeze syndrome that is part of stress, it can make it harder to relax and allow sleep to happen.

Having a nighttime ritual for bedtime is a good idea, but there are some practices in that ritual that really keep you awake.

“Karoshi” is a Japanese word that literally translates “death from overwork.”

For most of us, eating is not something to which we give a lot of attention. You eat to fuel you body to do the “important” things on your schedule.

How does mindfulness play a role in stress reduction? So often, we respond to stress by trying to identify its source and then address that source by controlling or avoiding the stressors we identified.

Sleep is one of the places in life where you can experience stress. Sleep stress can happen at any point in your life, but it is not unusual for it to show up during the holidays.

When you think of someone who is stressed, you might picture a person caught up in fretful worry. But there is another form of stress that may not show up on your face or with your gestures. It is the stress from living on autopilot.

One of the most meaningful benefits of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is pain management. Actually, MSBR goes beyond managing or dealing with pain; it gives you the tools to develop a different relationship with your pain.

There are many different sources for the stress we feel in our lives, but the one thing they all have in common is people.