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The Role of Stress in Heart Health

By Roz Jones


Stress isn’t just an emotional burden; it can also take a toll on the heart. As caregivers, both our stress and our loved ones’ stress can impact overall health. Learning to manage stress is essential for maintaining heart health.
I’ve seen firsthand how unmanaged stress affects not just the heart but also relationships and daily life. One of the strategies that worked for me was creating a stress-relief routine. Each evening, my loved one and I would spend 10 minutes doing deep breathing exercises or listening to calming music. Those moments became something we both looked forward to.

Here are simple ways to address stress:

  1. Practice Deep Breathing: Spend a few minutes together each day practicing slow, deep breaths to calm the mind and reduce blood pressure.
  2. Encourage Downtime: Help your loved one find a relaxing activity they enjoy, like knitting, listening to music, or simply sitting in nature.
  3. Create a Stress-Relief Routine: Build small moments of peace into each day for both of you. Even a few minutes can make a significant difference.

Stress management is a team effort. By creating daily routines that promote relaxation, you can support your loved one’s heart health while improving your own well-being.

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Transforming Your Stress into Success

By Roz Jones

Stress is an inevitable part of life, but it doesn’t have to control us. With the right mindset and techniques, we can transform stress into success. Here are some ways to do it:

  • Change your perception of stress: Rather than viewing stress as a negative force that needs to be avoided, try to see it as a challenge that can help you grow and develop.
  • Identify the source of your stress: Understanding what is causing your stress can help you find ways to address it. It could be a particular situation, a person, or even your own thoughts and behaviors.
  • Practice self-care: Make sure you’re taking care of your physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Exercise regularly, eat healthily, get enough sleep, and take time to relax and recharge.
  • Develop coping strategies: Find healthy ways to manage your stress, such as mindfulness meditation, deep breathing exercises, or talking to a friend or therapist.
  • Set realistic goals: Instead of trying to do everything at once, break your goals into smaller, manageable steps. Celebrate your accomplishments along the way to stay motivated.
  • Embrace failure: Failure is a natural part of the learning process, and it’s okay to make mistakes. Use your failures as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than beating yourself up over them.
  • Stay positive: Focus on the good things in your life and practice gratitude. Surround yourself with positive people who support and encourage you.

By implementing these strategies, you can transform stress into a positive force that helps you achieve success in all areas of your life.

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5 Tips for Breaking Procrastination Habits

By Roz Jones

As you might guess, breaking your procrastination habit is going to be as difficult as creating a productive one. 

Here are some tips to help you along the way.

  • Become aware of when you are procrastinating. 
    • Figure out when and why you are putting something off. Increase your awareness of what you’re doing instead of the task that needs doing. 
  • Write down when and why you are doing it and how it makes you feel. 
    • This helps you establish a baseline and then you can analyze and recognize why you are doing it.
  • Switch it out.
    • Once you know why and when you’re following the procrastination routine, find a temporary or permanent replacement habit for it. For example, if you’re putting off a big project because you don’t have time for it, break it up into smaller tasks you can work on daily. 
  • Choose a new approach that works for you. 
    • Some people can quit a behavior all at once while others need to quit, gradually. Put into place accountability and rewards systems when you take action instead of procrastinating. 
  • Replace the bad behavior with positive behavior until it becomes a habit.
    • This can be as simple as using apps to help you be more productive and make it easier to get organized, so you know what you need to be doing.

Procrastination doesn’t have to always get you down. I hope these tips will help you to kick your procrastination habits to the curb as you prepare for the new year!

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The Link Between Health, Stress & Procrastination

By Roz Jones

As you’ve probably experienced, procrastination can have a huge impact on your success in life. It can also have a big impact on your physical and mental health.

Procrastination is linked to mental health problems like stress and anxiety. When you put off tasks, it leads to stress over having to get things done at the last minute. This can lead to anxiety, fear, and feelings of depression.

This stress can then lead to physical symptoms that can be deadly such as cardiovascular disease and hypertension. Too much and continual stress is bad for your health as it can lead to insomnia, chronic headaches, stiff muscles, chest pain, fatigue, low sex drive, upset stomach, and obesity.

Procrastination leads to irritability, sadness, restlessness, and excitability, as well as a lack of focus or feeling, overwhelmed and anxious.

Our moods, resulting from procrastinating, can lead us to overeat, exercise less often, have social withdrawal, have angry outbursts, and have drug, alcohol, or tobacco abuse.

We might end up postponing health checkups that would catch problems early or not taking care of ourselves in a healthy way.

All of these can be prevented by reducing or putting a halt to procrastinating. We’ll look at ways to do this later.

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1. YOU ARE NOT ALONE: The problems you face as a caregiver are experienced by other caregivers. Knowing that you’re not alone can be comforting. 

2. Tools and Resources:  Find caregiver stress management tools and gain perspective from other caregivers’ experiences.

3. LEARN TO: Ask for help, accept help when it is offered, and acknowledge yourself on this caregiving journey. Hear from experts on how to balance caregiving responsibilities by taking care of your needs and involving others to help manage the natural stress and isolation of being a caregiver. 
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