When you are under stress, the effects of stress seem immediate in your body. Your neck gets tense, you get a headache, and you can’t sleep.
But this is just the surface. Inside your body, the hormones released under chronic stress begin a cycle of destruction on your tissues which leads to illness and disease. Heart disease, digestion difficulties, high blood pressure and lowered immunity are just some of the conditions which are associated with chronic stress.
Moving outside your body, stress impacts your role as mother by creating anxiety and impatience. Brain fog, irritability and exhaustion are all effects of stress. And of course, these same symptoms affect your work, and your marriage.
I first understood the effects of chronic stress when I realized that I was yelling at my children unfairly. I was extremely harsh and unyielding; I gave crazy punishments for very small upsets.
I had started a health program using essential oils and other supplements to improve my eyesight but when my body began to heal, the yelling stopped. It was only then that I realized that stress had been a monster puppeteer which directed me to do and say things which I didn’t mean.
I also discovered how effective essential oil were in healing my body and balancing my moods from the effects of stress.
Stress taxes marriages, family relations, employment and all social interaction. And one researcher who has found that stress in a pregnant mothers can increase the likelihood of asthma in her unborn baby, calls stress a “poison”.
Find out about the effects of stress, but don’t stop there. When you have convinced yourself that you need to stop fighting life, go on the Thoughts of Stress-free Living, and Yoga sections. Find ways to reduce your stress permanently and bring peace back to your life.
As a mother, you must be healthy in your body, heart and soul. Many people rely on you and taking care of yourself is gift to yourself and to them.
Stress and Health
Acne:
- Acne Alternative Treatment: Alternative treatment options to clear your acne and reduce the load of toxins in your body.
- Does Stress Cause Acne?: Acne during exams? A deadline? The Holidays? Find out how and why you breakout under stress.
- Stress Acne: Reduce Inflammation for Prevention and Treatment: Stress acne is a symptom of a taxed immune system. To clear your skin, reduce inflammation through diet and other natural methods.
Insomnia:
- Stress Related Insomnia: What are the signs of stress related insomnia and how do western medicine and Chinese medicine view the condition?
- Improving your Sleep and Relaxation Naturally: Nine natural tips to improve your sleep and relaxation. When everything the ‘experts’ suggest doesn’t work, try these ideas.
- Trouble Sleeping? How’s your Marriage?: Unhappy marriages mean sleeping for women is difficult, a study reports. How can this obvious information be helpful to you?
- Good Sleep and Stress Relief with Aromatherapy: Aromatherapy can help sleep and stress relief. Find out which oils to use so you can sleep well tonight.
High Blood Pressure:
- Stress and High Blood Pressure: Is it inevitable to end up with hypertension if you have stress? And how do you relieve the high blood pressure naturally?
Asthma:
- Asthma and Stress: Asthma and Stress can cycle together, each making the other worse. Learn how to improve your symptoms naturally and breathe easy.
Hair:
- Stress and Hair Loss: Double Anxiety: Can stress cause hair loss and if so, how? What can you do about it?
- Coloring your Gray Hair: Natural ways to color and disguise your stress-related gray hair.
- Treating Stress Related Hair Loss: When the effects of stress steal your beautiful hair, what are your treatment options?
- Does Stress Cause Gray Hair? : Find out how does stress cause gray hair and what you can do to stop premature aging.
Sore Muscles:
- How to Give Yourself a Foot Massage: Supplies Part 1: To massage your foot, there are no special supplies needed, however there are some supplies to make it especially nice. Find out how to give yourself a wonderful foot massage.
- How to Give Yourself a Foot Massage: Techniques Part 2: Simple techniques to massage your foot and relax from a stressful day. With relief from pinchy shoes, relaxation moves to your whole body.
- Head Forward Posture: A Source for Back Pain: When you sit with head forward posture, you can develop back, neck and shoulder aches, and this can compound your stress. Find out how to improve your posture.
- The Body Back Buddy: A Good Tool for your Sore Back: The Body Back Buddy is one tool that can help release tight, stressed muscles. Find out how to use it to give yourself a massage.
- Shoulders (trapezius muscles): Find out why your trapezius muscle is one of the most affected by stress and what you can do to relieve the pain.
Digestion:
- Stress and Stomach Problems: Natural ways to relieve the symptoms of IBS and other stress stomach problems.
Stress and Relationships
- Trouble Sleeping? How’s your Marriage?: Unhappy marriages mean sleeping for women is difficult, a study reports. How can this obvious information be helpful to you?
