First appeared on Forbes.com. According to the World Health Organization, stress is “the health epidemic of the 21st century,” and the driver of many chronic diseases.

I just got back from two of the leading business events on employee health and human capital—and there was one hot-button issue that topped everyone’s agenda: The incredible toll that stress is ta…

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Poor sleep leaves you with zero capacity to manage stress.

Stress can spout from everywhere—work obligations, family tension, a severe lack of self-care…and also, stuff.

You know the feeling. It’s Monday morning at work and you feel like you’re trudging through mud. You’re drowsy, forgetful, and mentally stumbling on tasks that should be easy.

When a negative emotion hits you, you can feel it in your body, right? A heaviness on your chest, a hollow feeling in your stomach, a flushed face, tears welling up.

Big business is setting its sights on the impact that emotional well-being—stress management, resilience and mindfulness—can have on the productivity, capacity and motivation of people.

Resilience is not just the ability to survive challenging times; it’s the ability to thrive in them.

3 Ways to Make Resilience a Practice Resilience is not just the ability to survive challenging times; it’s the ability to thrive in them.

By Andrew Shatté, Ph.D.  New research from Stockholm University has confirmed that procrastination isn’t just a time-management issue.

“The universe isn’t made of atoms, it’s made of stories.” A poet named Muriel Rukeyser wrote that.