
Mindfulness for Wellness
Stress | Depression Link STRESS → DEPRESSION LINK What is Stress? Is it good for you – huh? Stress: (Pressure, tension, strain, tightness in body) The connection between stress and depression is involuted and circular. Stress keeps you alert, motivated and primed to respond. Anyone who is facing or has faced a work deadline, competed in a sport, or living in today’s fast paced, economical, political, societal, media madness, reality TV world, knows stress mobilizes the body to respond. Now, how the body responds is key. Often times, it can improve actions, outcomes and performance(s) as appropriate. Yet too much stress, or chronic stress