Managing Your Health and Wellness For The Holiday Season

It is easy to experience anxiety around the holidays. Here are some holiday anxiety tips: healthy eating, exercise, and rest can greatly improve holiday health and wellness.

Video Tran­script:

Hey Budd Group fam­i­ly and hap­py hol­i­days. Wel­come to Decem­ber, this month we’re going to be doing some­thing a lit­tle bit dif­fer­ent for our safe­ty videos. We’re going to be talk­ing about health and well­ness, which are extreme­ly impor­tant when talk­ing about your safe­ty both at work and at home. This time of the year is extreme­ly joy­ful for many of us. We get to spend time with our fam­i­ly and our friends and we get to be thank­ful and rejoice. But it’s also very stress­ful for many of us cause we’re think­ing about presents and some­times even think­ing about spend­ing time with fam­i­ly and friends can be stress­ful. So before we get going and talk­ing about health and well­ness, I just want­ed to remind you that you nev­er know what some­body else has going on in their life at home or at work. So please keep in mind that some­body may be anx­ious about the hol­i­days, they may be anx­ious about their fam­i­ly com­ing into town, they may be anx­ious about buy­ing presents for their friends and family.

So just keep in mind that you nev­er know what’s going on with some­body. And the best thing that we can do is just treat them with love and respect and lis­ten to them if they need some­body to lis­ten to. And if that per­son is you who’s feel­ing stressed and anx­ious, please talk to some­body. It’s impor­tant to let some­body know that you’re feel­ing anx­ious and that you’re feel­ing stressed out. So don’t be afraid to talk to some­body. And if you need some­one to talk to, we’d be hap­py to talk to you here at the Budd Group. So reach out to your human resources team and we’d be hap­py to talk to you. So I hope you enjoy these videos. We’re going to talk a lit­tle bit about how to man­age some of that stress that comes with this time of the year, ways like exer­cise and eat­ing and get­ting some rest. So enjoy these videos and hap­py holidays.

Do you guys like veg­eta­bles? If you’re any­thing like me, when you were grow­ing up, your par­ents had to force you to eat stuff like this. But the truth is they’re good for you. And it’s impor­tant for us to think about what we’re eat­ing in our diet because what we put into our body has a direct effect on our ener­gy lev­els and our stress and our anx­i­ety. I’m not here to tell you exact­ly what to eat or what you should or should­n’t be eat­ing or how to cook it. Just here to tell you that it’s impor­tant to think about what your diet is. Espe­cial­ly around the hol­i­days, I like to throw my diet out the win­dow and eat as much as I can at Thanks­giv­ing and through­out the hol­i­days and then I kind of pick it back up on Jan­u­ary 1^st. But this is here to just be a reminder that what you eat is real­ly, real­ly impor­tant and it can be a help­ful way to man­age some of those stress and anx­i­ety lev­els that real­ly seem to rise this time of the year.

Oh man, I did­n’t see you there. All jok­ing aside, one of the best things we can do to man­age our stress and anx­i­ety is to find time to exer­cise. Now no, this does not mean always doing the jazzer­cise or going to the work­out room to lift some weights. Though those things are real­ly good and can be help­ful. It can be as sim­ple as find­ing time to take a quick walk. You see, most peo­ple think that stress is just some­thing in our emo­tions, but the real­i­ty is stress and anx­i­ety are actu­al­ly a buildup of a chem­i­cal in our body.

And so the best thing that we can do to get rid of that stress and anx­i­ety is to release that chem­i­cal. And one of the best ways we have to do that is exer­cise. Find­ing a way to get that heart rate up, whether it’s tak­ing a walk or going to the gym, espe­cial­ly at this time of year when it starts to get dark ear­li­er and it’s cold and tough to go out­side, find­ing time to exer­cise can be extreme­ly impor­tant. It’s a great tool to release some of that stress and anx­i­ety. So find time to play and exer­cise and have fun. This’ll be extreme­ly impor­tant in man­ag­ing your stress this time of year.

Oh hey there. One thing that’s real­ly impor­tant for you to keep in mind this hol­i­day sea­son is to find time to rest. Now, this does­n’t always mean putting on your one­sie and lay­ing down in bed for a nice long nap. Though it is impor­tant to find time to sleep, some­times rest­ing just means find­ing time to take a break, whether it’s sit­ting and med­i­tat­ing or tak­ing a nap or going to sleep. You see, the body uses this time to rebuild itself just like ear­li­er in the year when we talked about us con­stant­ly pour­ing out our water. Sleep­ing is one of the ways that we have, and rest is one of the ways that we have to put some water back in.

If you think about a car that’s run­ning all day long and all day long and all day long, it’ll even­tu­al­ly over­heat and our bod­ies are no dif­fer­ent. They need to be shut off every now and then, which means find­ing some time to rest and reha­bil­i­tate it. So please keep this in mind is a good way to man­age some of the stress in your life this time of year.

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