Welcome to the 124th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast.
This month’s theme is mind-body connection, how our physical health supports our mental health and how our mental health supports our physical health.
So, in today’s episode, I talk about how to have wellbeing conversations where physical health may help to open up the conversations about mental health.
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- Why I decided to make an episode on this topic. [00:53]
- Some statistics about stress in the workplace. [03:39]
- How stress can manifest itself in our bodies. [04:40]
- Some emotional symptoms of stress. [06:24]
- How to have conversations with someone showing stress-related symptoms. [11:32]
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- Stress is a very physical sensation.
- Unfortunately, stress is really seen as an integral part of day to day life. But the ongoing physical impacts are very significant indeed.
- Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension, resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.
- Stress can be super helpful to enable us to perform or to meet deadlines and motivate us to do our best.
- Chronic stress can contribute significantly to physical problems such as heart disease, hypertension, high blood pressure, and bone density issues,
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