Stress Awareness Month
With stress awareness month coming up if thought I would share this with you. I have just starting working as an associate with Yellow Tree Wellbeing, a fantastic organisation that is passionate providing wellbeing programmes to employers to support your employees in their health and wellbeing at work. We spend the majority of our adult life at work which is why it is paramount that as an employer we have a duty of care to our employees providing the best possible environment and support during their working week.
From my own professional and personal experience STRESS is very detrimental to our health if not managed well, causing a range of mental and physical health conditions. Stress creates energy in the body when we go into a flight or fight response and produces adrenaline and cortisol, enabling the body to respond. Utilising the excess energy that we produced through exercise will help to release and disperse that trapped energy, giving it a channel to be released, helping to prevent inflammation within the body. From working with many people from all backgrounds over many years as a personal trainer, yoga instructor, meditation practitioner, nutrition coach and menopause coach, I know how beneficial exercise is for stress with my clients. This along with a eating healthily and looking after our minds as well as bodies will not remove stress from life, but enable us to utilise tools to manage the stress that life brings.
Suzanne O'Callaghan
Lifestyle Fitness