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My husband, Dick, suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), so when the days get shorter, his anxiety mounts. Until we figured out what was going on, the emotional toll was so crippling that Dick was unable to function normally. It took his doctor several annual cycles to figure out that the cause of Dick’s anxiety, depression and general malaise had no basis in his relationships,...

Well we all survived Monday. We dealt with the stress of tax day and the news of the bombing in Boston. Now we have to deal with the lingering stress. The problem with this is that it will keep your mind rushing and rob you of sleep. That in turn will cause you to be more tired and more stressed and so the vicious circle goes. I never bring up and issue without a plan to deal with...

Well we all survived Monday. We dealt with the stress of tax day and the news of the bombing in Boston. Now we have to deal with the lingering stress. The problem with this is that it will keep your mind rushing and rob you of sleep. That in turn will cause you to be more tired and more stressed and so the vicious circle goes. I never bring up and issue without a plan to deal with...

Someone recently wrote me and mentioned her sewing room. It was in the context of maintaining her sanity. She said she had a stressful day at work and when it was over she retreated to her sewing room in order to maintain her sanity. That’s all it took for me to start on another musing journey. I certainly can’t argue with her about her work being very stressful. It probably is...

According to a February article in the Huffington Post, Millennials in the Millennial Generation (also known as Generation Y, those born in the early 1980s through the year 2000) are the most stressed out demographic group. A competing article, however, in The New York Times, also published in February, crowned Boomers as the demographic group most injured by the current recession and its...

You think that sleep is mostly about what you do right before you go to bed. This is not the case at all especially for women. There are many things that keep us from sleeping including what we eat, stress and how much we move. If we make some plans we can improve our sleep by reducing out stress, improving our diets, maybe have a little time to work out and possibly save a bit of money....

It’s that time of the year again when the list of things to be done grows by the minute, plans are changed again and again until the last minute, and stress over finances, family, and friends is at an all time high. There is too much to do, too much to see, too many places to be, and far too many expectations to be met. The demands of work, family, friends, and even church push us to a panic...