Executive Leadership And Stress Insights Blog

Your Weekly Dose Of Workplace Health, Calm, and Productivity

What are the signs of being stressed out?

More interesting information from the stress survey coming up. When you are stressed out you usually know because of different symptoms or feelings. I listed a few in my stress survey and asked which of these people would feel when stressed out. They were allowed to...

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What is your most burning question about stress?

In this blog post I will continue to pick the gold out of the stress survey I recently had out there. I am so grateful for people answering and I can see in the answers that they spoke right out of their hearts. I thought I can answer a few of them here – or at least...

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What part in life generates stress?

Do you know what part of life is most common to generate stress? In the online survey I recently had going I found the answer. What would you have guessed? Work? Family? Money? I had 6 alternatives to choose from, Work Related, Health Issues, Financial, Family...

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Honestly, how often do you get stressed out?

I recently had a survey out about stress. One of the question was about how often people were stressed out. This was not a scientific study but questions to people in my network. One interesting thing I found out is that most people didn’t say they are stressed every...

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Let me know: What is stress to you?

Daily I get questions about stress. Why am I feeling like this? What can I do about that? I feel my heart beat – is that dangerous? How can I get out of this stressful situation? What would you do, Dr Annika? What is stress - really? And it goes on like this……… Of...

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August De-Stress Round-Up

We are well into the summer even though we don’t really feel that in Sweden. The weather has been anything but summerlike. Hopefully we will get some sun and warmth in August to give us energy, and also a dose of vitamin D, to use during the dark winter months. Anyway...

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July De-Stress Round-Up

Summer is here and it is time to take a break from the blog for a week or two. Some may call it laziness but I think it's good to take time away to reflect on your life, your work and find your path into the future. So, why not use the summer to ponder about where you...

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6 tips about your Internet plug-in time!

How many times in a day do you use an internet connected device? That is a very hard question to answer – since most of us use them all the time. They are at our side around the clock, whether we work or not. We don’t use them X amount of time, they have become part...

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Three ways to get energy to de-stress!

The other day I was asked, in a Facebook comment, how to avoid disturbed sleep when caused by overload. At first I was going to answer – “by looking over your sleeping habits” – but no, that is starting in the wrong end. That is treating a symptom but the “disease” is...

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Do you want to know a secret?

This is going to make some of you laugh out loud. That is what I did when I realized this. You know, I had a belief about something and I didn't feel I had the time to look into it. Everyone else talked good about it so I reckon it is a good thing. But I thought it...

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How does it all work?

Dr. Annika works internationally with individual company leaders and executives who are committed to providing themselves and their workforce with stress management skills.