Accepting and embracing stress may just help us improve our mental health.
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New research shines light on what is driving hospitality workers – like waiters and hotel workers – to abandon the industry as part of the ‘great resignation.’
The science of stress explains why parenting during the pandemic feels so hard. Here are strategies from psychologists for taking back control when you dread yet another challenging day ahead.
92% of performing artists experienced significant changes to their work during early stages of the pandemic – and at least half experienced depression.
Workplaces, in addition to providing critical organizational resources, can encourage employees to undertake a voluntary workplace well-being streak, or employees can commit to their own.
Managing your stress could help you live longer.
Remorse and sorrow from a bad choice can haunt you for years, even decades. But there are evidence-based ways to move past regret.
Emotional Freedom Techniques, known as tapping, are an approach to stress relief that more than 100 randomised clinical trials have shown is effective.
Hostile partners can experience jumps in stress and blood pressure after an argument. But there are ways to cool conflicts, even during a pandemic holiday season.
Don’t expect meditation to provide Christmas miracles. But if you start learning how to meditate now, your holidays may be a bit less stressful and perhaps a little more meaningful.
As we face the rise and rise of the Omicron variant, your risk of getting severe Covid may depend on how stressed you are. Now is a great time to look after your mental health.
A growing body of research points to the body’s natural cannabinoid system as the primary driver behind the runner’s high – and the mental health boost and stress relief following exercise.
Practising mindfulness and getting outdoors can reduce stress around the holiday season.
Parenting means internal competition between three evolved responses: the threat, drive and soothing system. The threat light is on often, but it can be dampened by tapping into the soothing system.
A scholar of Christian spirituality argues that prayers are meant to bring together a faith community – something apps aren’t likely to achieve.
Supermarket employees, still laboring in crisis mode, continue to report significant rises in physical and mental health problems.
Having strong social support and a sense of belonging buffered and even reversed some of the harmful effects of stress on genes.
Despite some claims, ‘overtraining’ is likely the last reason you’re struggling to lose weight.
The pandemic brought about a sharp rise in mental health concerns, deep unemployment and an unprecedented amount of social isolation – a potentially deadly combination alongside rising gun sales.
How to manage the stress of polarization and how to function when it surrounds us is now a necessary but underdeveloped skill for many of us.
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Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, retired, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor (Adj) He/Him, Southern Cross University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba
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Senior Research Fellow in Mental Health, Victoria University
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Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor, Psychosocial Difficulties, University of Oslo
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
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Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Honorary Professor, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Macquarie University
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Business psychologist, Lancaster University