Category: Stress

  • Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score

    The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk is a book about how the body continues to keep the score even if we try to ignore the alarm signals from the emotional brain.1 The rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain…

  • Workplace stress

    Jayne Carrington writes in Workplace stress – UK we have a problem that “there is growing evidence of presenteeism – in which the employee is at work, but disengaged and unproductive – and also, due to increased work demands encroaching on personal time.” Workplace stress is a global problem because people are important for all…