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The "E" Word

Take down all the lights and remove all the Christmas songs from the radio. You can do this, yet I can still FEEL the holiday season is upon us. The hustle, the bustle, a little road-rage here, a little push-and-shove at Kohl’s there. There’s no other time that as Americans, we get so excited for Christmas, yet we act like lunatics and dread much of what leads up to it. Last week I wrote about stress, and I gave you a list of coping mechanisms.   I said the “E” word, and the entire earth tilted on its axis—I totally felt it—due to the centripetal force of the simultaneous eye roll of every “bah humbugger” out there—the very second I mentioned “exercise”.   You know how when young kids are curious and ask “why?” after every conversation you have with them? It can be truly frustrating, but children are trying to process the world around them and are expanding their critical thinking skills when they ask questions. Knowing the “why” helps them make sense of things.   Kno...

Happy Holidays! Love, King Cortisol and Stress

  I LOVE THE HUMAN BODY! The heart can beat for a hundred-and-something years, the brain takes your hand away from a hot stove before you realize it, and when you eat, your body keeps the good stuff and excretes much of the bad. When I pick my dry cuticles until they bleed (a NASTY habit I cannot seem to curb), my skin literally heals itself by growing back, ready for me to pick another day. As you have probably realized how weird and sometimes backwards I am, what I love more than the fully functioning human body…is one that does NOT function as it should. All body functions have a “plan B” (ALSO a very fascinating mechanism), but sometimes the malfunction goes beyond the backup devices, so the body responds in ways that we just don’t like it to. Knowing the “why” behind this can help motivate change and help one to start the path on his/her journey to wellness. Anxiety. Tension. Worry. Fear. Hardship. There are as many synonyms for the word STRESS as there are hormones that g...