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 Destressing

Do you feel as if life's responsibilities are pulling you in a thousand different directions? As if the roles you have to play in life (career woman, mother, wife, daughter, sister) are all-consuming and you never have time for yourself?

Then this section is for you, as it contains articles on organising your life, quick ways to destress and tips on making your life a lot easier than it feels right now.

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01. Avoid morning madness
Mornings are rushed at the best of times, but there are things you can do to start the day off on the right foot.
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02. To skimp or not to skimp?
Is your personal budget about to be declared a disaster area? Check which things you can skimp on - and on which you shouldn't.
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03. Sunday evening blues?
Sunday 3 p.m. and it feels like a dark fog is descending over you. Your shoulders are tensing up, and you find yourself beginning to fret about your workload.
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04. Feel better in ten minutes
All stressed out and ready to strangle someone? Has your boss, the bank manager, the baby and your mother-in-law been acting up? Before you explode, here are some suggestions.
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05. Making your life easier
There are just not enough hours in the day and you feel as if you are being pulled in five different directions. Where will you find more time?
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06. 37 ways to de-stress
There are things every one of us should do at least once a year – if only to remind ourselves that we are alive.
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07. Learning to say no
You have just put down the telephone after agreeing to something you don't really want to do. You feel as if you have, in some way, betrayed yourself. Why on earth did you say yes?
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08. 10 shortcuts through life
In the end it’s the little things that count. A saved cellphone number, a headache tablet, a raincoat for a sudden summer storm.
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09. So much to do - so little time?
There are just not enough hours in the day and you feel as if you are being pulled in five different directions. Where will you find more time?
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10. Crisis or catastrophe?
Every person has crises at some stage of their lives. It is unavoidable, no matter how careful or how organised we are, that things will go wrong at some stage.
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11. Feeling blue?
OK, so maybe the girlfriend has left, the final demand letter from the bank has arrived, you had a fight with your father or the toilet has started leaking again - what can you do to hoist yourself up...
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12. 15 good tips just for you
Do the following things and you will avoid many of those situations in life that make you want to scream with frustration.
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13. Making time for yourself
Many modern women juggle work, children and their marriage relationships. But somewhere in the midst of this you have to find a little time for yourself, otherwise you would be unable to stay on the t...
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14. Pre-Christmas stress busters
There are a few weeks to the end of the the year - and a few strands to the end of your tether. With the mad Christmas rush coming up, you will need to develop your stress coping mechanisms. But how ...
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15. 10 end-of-year stress busters
It's been a heavy year and things are not letting up. Does the thought of Christmas and the end-of-year stresses make you want to run away fast?
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16. Are you a sucker?
You're running around in circles - for everyone else, except yourself. And when those grim little tasks are handed out, they always seem to come your way. Could you be a sucker?
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17. Facts about sleep
For seven or eight hours per day, we go into a profoundly different state – a system – shutdown, if you will. But how much do you really know about sleep?
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18. Tips to help beat insomnia
Millions of people often have trouble getting a good night's sleep. So, what can be done? Most sleep problems can be remedied with lifestyle changes.
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19. Learn to be happy
Would a lot of money and a good marriage make you happy? Not necessarily, say the experts. Circumstances don't have all that much to do with it.
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20. Bad service a health hazard?
You didn't get what you ordered. And what you got, was off. You feel as if you could blow a gasket. How do you deal with this?
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21. Me, myself and migraines
As I woke up with blurry vision and numbness on the one side of my body, I knew that I was going to have another migraine attack.
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22. Uterine cancer
Cancer of the womb can either develop from the surface of the cervix (cervical cancer) or it can develop in the endometrium (endometrial cancer).
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