The Stress Management Series makes it easy for people to see the cumulative benefit of practicing stress management every day and building their resiliency skills over time. The 5-part series includes:

1. Recognizing Stress
2. Managing Stress
3. Resilience: Mastering Stress
4. Stress, Weight Control and Emotional Eating
5. Yoga@Work

Managing Stress teaches techniques for tackling tension while Recognizing Stress explains why it's so important to manage stress. Mastering Stress will show you how to take your stress in stride. Stress, Weight Control and Emotional Eating offers techniques to avoid stress related overeating and Yoga@Work offers poses you can do right from your chair!

Recognizing Stress DVD

(15 Minutes)
Making the connection between stressful life circumstances and stress-related illness.

If you are like most people, you probably fail to see the connection between your stress and the onset of stress-related heath-problems like recurrent colds, high blood pressure, mood disorders and chronic pain. But after you watch the four people in this video describe how stress causes them to overspend, overeat, lose sleep and become depressed, you will begin to make this connection.

A real eye-opener for anyone who thinks they have their stress under control. A film you won’t easily forget. If you want to start a dialog about stress in your organization this is the program you’ve been looking for.

Managing Stress DVD

(15 Minutes)
Five techniques for tackling tension.

Arguments, always running late, not sleeping well, credit card debt, difficult co-workers; these are just a few of the many sources of stress identified in this program. Learn how to tackle real life stressors by following five simple steps:

1. Identify the source of your stress
2. Eliminate or avoid stress whenever possible
3. Rethink the stress you can’t eliminate
4. Cope with the stress you can’t rethink
5. When all else fails, seek support. Identify, eliminate, rethink, cope and seek support

Demonstrates how these five simple, yet practical strategies work in a variety of real-life situations.

Resilience: Mastering Stress DVD

(14 Minutes)
Learning how to let stress roll right off your back.

It’s one thing to learn how to recognize and learn how to manage stress. But it’s another thing entirely to let stress just roll right off your back. Some experts call this resilience and others call it stress inoculation training (SIT).

Mastering Stress teaches you how to take your stress in stride using simple strategies like learning how to bounce back from adversity, staying flexible, setting realistic goals, living life according to your highest values, and seeing setbacks as only temporary. These skills and others form the building blocks of resilience. Lots of real life situations challenge the people in this video to learn how to practice resilience over stress.

Stress, Weight Control and Emotional Eating DVD

(16 Minutes)
Is stress fattening?

Over-eating can cause you to feel stressed and stress can cause you to over-eat. It’s a vicious cycle that, if left un-checked, can eventually lead to all kinds of health problems including, insulin resistance, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. But by recognizing emotional eating for what it is (a misguided attempt to nurture ourselves and manage stress) and by learning how to truly nurture ourselves - we can begin to modify our habitual pattern of heading to the kitchen after any emotional upset.

This video offers seven strategies for how to avoid emotional eating including: keeping a mood/food journal, using rewards other than food and eating and cooking mindfully.

Yoga@Work DVD

(25 Minutes)
Stretch away your stress without leaving your desk.

Yoga instructor Michele Elliman teaches viewers how to practice yoga at work. Includes many simple postures they can do in normal work clothes, right at their desk or work-station. Focusing almost entirely on the upper body, these easy-to-hold postures can all be done unobtrusively in a chair at the office without having to get up to move around.

Each stretch is a 1-2 minute exercise that can be practiced one-at-a-time or as part of a longer sequence with other stretches. Make this program available over a corporate website or intranet and relaxation is only a click away: Shoulders feel tight? Just click on the shoulder stretch. Neck muscles ache? Do some head and neck rolls. Mind racing and feeling stressed? Try a breathing exercise. Back starting to bother you a bit? Try imaging you were squeezing a lemon between your shoulder blades!

Now you can take an invigorating break at work that doesn’t involve caffeine, time away from your desk, or calories added to your waistline!

Purchase Includes:

• DVD
• Participant Handouts
• PowerPoint Presentations