How to Manage Your Stress to Improve Your Health with Dr. Annika Sörensen

Do you feel stressed day in and day out.  Can you feel it start to impact your relationships and your work?   For this week’s episode of the Weekend Wellness Hour Show, physician and stress strategist, Dr. Annika Sörensen joined us to discuss the role of stress in our health and lives.  Dr. Annika has been a medical doctor for over 30 years and is on a mission to prevent stress-related illnesses.   We discussed Dr. Annika’s journey into stress management and she shared a personal tragedy that led her to feel overwhelm. She realized that she needed to get help and she started learning how to manage her own stresses before beginning to educate others.   Dr. Annika shared the repercussions of chronic and prolonged stress on a person’s health. She mentioned many common disease related to the heart, digestive tract and several more that could be prevented if a person chooses to manage stress.    As a stress strategist, Dr. Annika described the process she takes her clients through to help them identify all the areas of their lives where stress infiltrates.  She explained the importance of avoiding overwhelm and allowing the process to happen in small steps.   We discussed some of the top tips for stress management including getting back into the present.  She mentioned several tools she teaches, including journaling, meditation and breath work, to help people change their stress habits.   Dr. Annika has been on ABC, MyNetworkTV, FOX, and twice given talks at TEDx events. She is also officially certified by The Big Talk Academy, and the author of two top-rated books on stress management “Take Stress from Chaos to Calm” and “My De-Stress Diary.”  Today Dr Annika is Helping Stressed out Business Leaders slow down, reflect, feel less stress, and then ramp up and get more done and create bigger success without having to work harder.   Please join us to learn more about stress management to improve your health.   Please feel free to reach out to Dr. Annika Sörensen at http://www.askdrannika.com.   -Dr. Amy Novotny   Subscribe to PABR Institute's email list for free Tips for Relief: https://pabrinstitute.activehosted.com/f/1   www.pabrinstitute.com