You To Be Healthy

1 - Kick the Stress Most of us experience stress every day. Daily stress and anxiety wreak havoc with our sense of well-being and the impact of prolonged stress can have severe consequences on our health. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control estimates 75-90% of all visits to the doctor's office are stress related.  One key to good health is to keep levels of stress in check. Get started by: Identifying Your Stressors  -   Whether it's money issues, traffic or the piles of laundry, the first step to managing stress is knowing what is causing the most stress in your life.  Once identified, you can begin to figure out how to overcome stress or manage it better.  So what’s bugging you? Setting Priorities  - Take stock to determine what's really important and learn to say "No". This can be one of the biggest favors you can do for yourself.  You can’t do it all, so choose what is most important to you and learn to let the rest go. 

Being a stay-at-home mom is wonderful. Being there when the kids wake up and also being there to snuggle and read bedtime stories is a feeling of blessedness. The mom (or dad) at home arrangement has many benefits. We all know what they are, but it also can have many drawbacks.  Some of those would be a tighter budget, loneliness and probably one of the most troubling is the feeling of lowered self-esteem. Many stay-at-home moms and even moms who work outside the home may have given up their dreams for their families. They often have given up fulfilling careers that may even pay better and have more job satisfaction.  They may also have given up the dream of further education and pursuing a specific career. It is common to find that women feel their very identity gets lost, especially if the woman ties a lot of her identity to what she did in her career. I know I did. While it’s been touted many times that if a mother was to get paid for all the “jo