Thursday, May 01, 2008

Tackling Stress, a First Step


Last Thursday night at 6:30 p.m., I joined a group of female entrepreneurs determined to learn the secrets of eliminating stress from our lives. It was smack in the middle of rush hour and few of us arrived right on schedule. The remainder trickled in over the next half hour, with each latecomer exuding a look that said, “My life is so busy that it is hard to be punctual even for a destressing workshop.” We filed into the conference room at In Good Company Workplaces and then Jennifer Edwards, a “stress reduction educator” with a background in dance, meditation and yoga, asked us to go around the table introducing ourselves along with a statement about why we think we were all so stressed. It went something like this:

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