Give Yourself the Gift of Zen | Inspiration a Calm Season from Sheevaun Moran

December 28, 2011 – 9:04 am

Buy the presents, wrap the gifts, cook the meals…whew! The holiday season can be daunting for all of us.

Girlfriend Guru Sheevaun Moran share her girlfriend advice – her top suggestions for easing the stress of the holidays. We think they are great suggestions for easing into the new year with a calm, Zen-like approach!

A Zen-like December would be wonderful, don’t you think? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get through the holiday season with less stress, worry, anxiety, tension, and drama?

Zen is an inner state of being and meditation is such that it will give you the ability to create a better experience, whether it’s the holidays or it’s the rest of the year.

Remember these things to Read More »

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Put Down Your Stress! | Life Lessons Girlfriends Share

November 17, 2011 – 2:12 pm

The Benefits of female friendship, chocolate and laughter … less stress!

My aunt sends me mass emails. Sometimes they’re scams (which often aren’t really scams) or amazing videos of powerful telescopes viewing the heavens. Sometimes they’re funny stories with a message – like these Life Lessons and sometimes they’re just inspiring mass-distributed (and therefore unattributed to the writer – I apologize to whomever you are!) parables like the following.

Like a girlfriend, she’s just sharing what she thinks is something a woman would benefit from reading/seeing/viewing. So this one is from my beautiful aunt. Hope it Read More »

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5 Tips for Hosting a Stressfree Thanksgiving | Tara Ziegmont, BlogTalkRadio

November 11, 2011 – 2:09 pm

It’s less than two weeks until ‘Turkey Day’ and the pre-holiday stress is building in a lot of our homes. How can we actually celebrate this season of gratitude without stressing over all-things-Thanksgiving?

It just part of most of our holidays – the stress from expectations to have big, fancy meals on Thanksgiving, to have a beautiful table and to all act like we’re enjoying every second of the day while many of us are just medicating our stress with tryptophan and maybe some wine.

Thankfully we’ve got just the girlfriend for girlfriend advice on taking the stress out of Thanksgiving.

Meet TARA ZIEGMONT – author of ‘Best Thanksgiving EVER.’ Tara is a blogger, mom and busy woman who decided to re-claim the spirit of Thanksgiving instead of stress by preparing and planning ahead. We’re talking with her on this BlogTalkRadio.com/Girlfriendology show and can’t wait for her great girlfriend advice. And, it starts now, with this great guest blog! (Thanks Tara!)

5 Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Thanksgiving

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Tax Stress Solution: Spend time with your Friends

April 15, 2011 – 9:04 am

Tax Day not a fun day? Stressed out by your taxes?

April 15th. The dreaded (by many of us!) Tax Day. Sure, we get until April 18th to file/pay this year, it’s still an extremely stressful time for Americans who often are dealing with other economic issues and stress. (Or is that just at my house?!) The Maryland Psychological Association shared these strategies for managing money stress:

The looming IRS tax deadline of April 18 may be stressful for many Americans. Stress related to tax deadlines can increase reliance on the unhealthy behaviors, such as Read More »

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Stressed? Overwhelmed? You need some Girlfriend Time! | Shelley E. Taylor, Inspiring Women

March 3, 2011 – 12:22 pm

Five years ago, I felt a strong, very conscious ‘need’ to be around my girlfriends.

Two of my friends were dealing with cancer and I was very distressed over them. But my instinct to be near girlfriends wasn’t just to be around them, it was to spend time with any of my female friends.

I did a little research and discovered that women’s need for female friends is biological. (See ‘The Tending Instinct,’ by Shelley E. Taylor.) Female friendship makes us healthier, happier, less stressed, live longer and feel more beautiful.

In fact, this book also covered women and stress. Previously it was believed that women and men responded to stress in the same way: ‘fight or flight.’ Eventually the stress research was done on women and showed (amazing!) – that we’re different! We respond to stress with ‘tend and befriend.’ When stressed, we want to take care of our children and we have the need to be Read More »

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De-Stress Yourself & your Holidays

December 14, 2010 – 12:02 am

It’s the hectic holidays. How’s your stress level girlfriend?

As a friend, we care about things like the stress in your life. We want to make your life better and to see you happy and with minimal stress. Why? Because we’re your friend!

At the holidays, it’s nearly impossible to be stress-free or even to try to reduce stress. We have parties to attend and give, gifts to buy and wrap, cards to sign and send (& in my case make – what a terrible tradition!), homes to decorate, friends and family to visit, and schedules to juggle. Then there’s the calories consumed and attempts to exercise them back off. The land of the stress-free might as well be on the North Pole because it isn’t to be found in the lives of busy women over the holidays!

So, what should we do? What’s the stress-free solution? Well, as your ‘official girlfriend inspiration, appreciation and celebration site,’ we have some Read More »

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Happiness, Stress and the Girlfriendology Survey

November 8, 2010 – 3:54 pm

Girlfriend – How happy are you? How stressed?

A friend of yours is stressed. Things aren’t going exactly the way she hoped. It might be financial, health, relationship, or family issues – or, unfortunately, she could be dealing with more than one. Life isn’t playing fair and she feels lost.

We can all relate. We’ve been there and hopefully we’ve found our way stressful situations to a happier life. We know that feeling of wanting our friend to be happy. We can relate to wanting to relieve some, heck any, of her stress.

As girlfriends, we care about our friends’ stress and happiness. We want to do anything in our power to relieve her stress and make sure she’s Read More »

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Month of Friendship – Day 6 – Plan a Girlfriend Trip

September 6, 2010 – 7:02 am

Stressed? Here’s the easy solution – spend time with your Girlfriends!

“I didn’t know how much I needed it until I got home,” shared my friend Colleen last week on our Saturday morning walk.

“I’ve been really stressed lately and didn’t know when I left the house how much I needed this girlfriend trip.”

Colleen, her sister, and a girlfriend take a road trip every August to shop, shop and, knowing Colleen as well as I do, shop some more. They load the car with a cooler and snacks, and then fill the hours and miles on the way to wherever with Read More »

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Jobs, women and stress | Girlfriend advice on taking care of ourselves

January 9, 2010 – 11:52 am

My girlfriend’s husband has been out of work for over a year.

He’s explored options, networked, interviewed and all the things that you’re supposed to do when you’re looking for a job. It’s a stressful situation – but not just for him.

Research shows that “children look to women for tending, men look to women for tending and women look to women for tending.” Read More »

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Stress, secrets and surprises

July 22, 2009 – 10:45 am

Girlfriends share stuff – that’s what we do. Stuff like secrets, surprises and all the stress we’re going through.

It helps to share. It ‘lightens our load’ to have another caring person help us when we feel weighted down by life, business … aka: ’stuff.’ And it’s fun to share Read More »

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Give Yourself the Gift of Zen | Inspiration a Calm Season from Sheevaun Moran

December 28, 2011 – 9:04 am

Buy the presents, wrap the gifts, cook the meals…whew! The holiday season can be daunting for all of us.

5 Tips for Hosting a Stressfree Thanksgiving | Tara Ziegmont, BlogTalkRadio

November 11, 2011 – 2:09 pm

It’s less than two weeks until ‘Turkey Day’ and the pre-holiday stress is building in a lot of our homes. How can we actually celebrate this season of gratitude without stressing over all-things-Thanksgiving?

5 Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Thanksgiving

Tax Stress Solution: Spend time with your Friends

April 15, 2011 – 9:04 am

Tax Day not a fun day? Stressed out by your taxes?

Stressed? Overwhelmed? You need some Girlfriend Time! | Shelley E. Taylor, Inspiring Women

March 3, 2011 – 12:22 pm

Five years ago, I felt a strong, very conscious ‘need’ to be around my girlfriends.

De-Stress Yourself & your Holidays

December 14, 2010 – 12:02 am

It’s the hectic holidays. How’s your stress level girlfriend?

Happiness, Stress and the Girlfriendology Survey

November 8, 2010 – 3:54 pm

Girlfriend – How happy are you? How stressed?

Month of Friendship – Day 6 – Plan a Girlfriend Trip

September 6, 2010 – 7:02 am

Stressed? Here’s the easy solution – spend time with your Girlfriends!

Jobs, women and stress | Girlfriend advice on taking care of ourselves

January 9, 2010 – 11:52 am

My girlfriend’s husband has been out of work for over a year.

Stress, secrets and surprises

July 22, 2009 – 10:45 am

Girlfriends share stuff – that’s what we do. Stuff like secrets, surprises and all the stress we’re going through.

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