Stress can affect us in many ways, and can have a negative effect on our health. It’s important to remember it’s not the pressure that hits us—it’s whether that pressure bends us out of shape. Stress isn’t the problem—strain is. Stress is a trigger for growth. As long as the stress is handled gradually…

Physical fitness is an important area of life. Certainly we aren’t all athletes, and we don’t all need to be measured against swimsuit models. (Even they don’t really look like that.) But it is our responsibility to keep ourselves in a healthy, energetic, pain-free body that supports us in our efforts…