Embracing a Healthier Lifestyle

▪ Stress: A 2023 survey by the American Institute of Stress found if you are stressed, you are not alone:

1. 55% of individuals are stressed everyday.

2. Causes included work (workload, manager), personal debt, the news, mass shootings, cost of healthcare, and discrimination.

3. 63% were ready to quit their jobs to avoid work-related stress.

4. 76% reported a negative impact on personal relationships related to workplace stress.

Let’s face it. Stress is unavoidable. We all experience it at some point, and some actually view it as a positive under certain circumstances. However, once being stressed starts to become your usual state of being and you have not found ways to cope and manage it, it can become chronic and lead to hormonal changes which result in burnout and damaging impacts to your physical and mental health. (Burnout is generally defined as a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion.)