Tag Archives: Stress

Can Gardening Boost Your Health?

Can Gardening Boost Your Health?
How about stress release, physical activity, social connections, and produce? Particularly during COVID Gardens and gardening promote health and well-being. A new scoping review of 77 studies showed that gardening promotes mental health, physical health. Specific positive outcomes include reduced stress and depression, and improved self-esteem; reduced isolation and increased social networks; increased physical activity…
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Resilience Training Can Help You

Learn to be more resilient Build resilience with behavioral and cognitive strategies Resilience refers to the process of responding positively to adversities, traumas, threats, or significant stress. Psychologists increasingly find that higher levels of resilience predict lower levels of anxiety, psychological distress, and depression. But can we learn to be more resilient? Researchers in Australia…
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Loneliness Can Kill You

Loneliness is a state of mind But loneliness also harms the body Loneliness is a condition in which persons see themselves to be socially isolated as a consequence of perceived inadequate social connections. Loneliness can have serious consequences for health and well-being, including increased risk of dying. Loneliness is a growing public health problem that…
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Write a Forgiveness Letter

Process the emotions of painful experiences Jettison grudges and reduce chronic stress If you harbor a grudge against someone, would you consider letting go of that grudge? Many people who harbor toxic, unprocessed feelings about another person have let go of those feelings by writing a forgiveness letter. Writing a forgiveness letter is one version…
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