Stress Mastery: The Art of Coping Gracefully

Stress and Illness

Do you believe that stress can make you sick? If you are like most people, you would answer with a resounding “YES!” When we ask people this question in our workshops and classes, all of them believe that stress can affect their emotional well-being, and the majority realize that it can lead to physical illness. Unless you have been living off the planet for the last few years, you have had some exposure to the fact that stress can and does have deleterious effects. However, had we asked this question just twenty-five or thirty years ago of people in general or even a group of health professionals, the majority would probably have denied the relationship between stress and our health. Back then we were just emerging from the ...