Dr. Tara Swart

Bring it right down to get up in the morning, go and sit at your desk, look like you're doing your job even if you actually can't really do it. This is the reason that presenteeism costs businesses more than double what absenteeism does. In that low-power mode, it would be better to stay at home for two days and recover and then come back to work and actually function and work with your team.

Bring it right down to get up in the morning, go and sit at your desk, look like you're doing your job even if you actually can't really do it. This is the reason that presenteeism costs businesses more than double what absenteeism does. In that low-power mode, it would be better to stay at home for two days and recover and then come back to work and actually function and work with your team.

Bring it right down to get up in the morning, go and sit at your desk, look like you're doing your job even if you actually can't really do it. This is the reason that presenteeism costs businesses more than double what absenteeism does. In that low-power mode, it would be better to stay at home for two days and recover and then come back to work and actually function and work with your team.

Because stress impairs the higher functioning of the brain. It just moves the blood supply away from it because you're not going to give up your precious resources for functions like that. And just to put that into context for you, Mel, the brain is a tiny organ. It's a tiny percentage of your whole body. like maybe 2% or 3%. But it uses up 20% to 30% of the breakdown products of what you eat.

Because stress impairs the higher functioning of the brain. It just moves the blood supply away from it because you're not going to give up your precious resources for functions like that. And just to put that into context for you, Mel, the brain is a tiny organ. It's a tiny percentage of your whole body. like maybe 2% or 3%. But it uses up 20% to 30% of the breakdown products of what you eat.

Because stress impairs the higher functioning of the brain. It just moves the blood supply away from it because you're not going to give up your precious resources for functions like that. And just to put that into context for you, Mel, the brain is a tiny organ. It's a tiny percentage of your whole body. like maybe 2% or 3%. But it uses up 20% to 30% of the breakdown products of what you eat.

Wow. Yeah. That's how hard it's working. It's using up 20% of what you ate that day when you're asleep. It's using up 25% of what you eat when you're working, managing, leading, running your family, just thinking. Right now, we're probably both using 25%. But if you're stressed, it's using 30%.

Wow. Yeah. That's how hard it's working. It's using up 20% of what you ate that day when you're asleep. It's using up 25% of what you eat when you're working, managing, leading, running your family, just thinking. Right now, we're probably both using 25%. But if you're stressed, it's using 30%.

Wow. Yeah. That's how hard it's working. It's using up 20% of what you ate that day when you're asleep. It's using up 25% of what you eat when you're working, managing, leading, running your family, just thinking. Right now, we're probably both using 25%. But if you're stressed, it's using 30%.

So the silverback gorillas' stress levels affect the other gorillas more than gorillas of the same status. And so it happens in business, and so it happens in the home.

So the silverback gorillas' stress levels affect the other gorillas more than gorillas of the same status. And so it happens in business, and so it happens in the home.

So the silverback gorillas' stress levels affect the other gorillas more than gorillas of the same status. And so it happens in business, and so it happens in the home.

the leader in quote marks of the entity their stress levels will impact other people more than the other way around or people of equal status so you know the highly stressed boss as an example the the highly stressed parent interesting yeah well makes sense because if you think about it whether it's in the example of the silverback or you take a family system or you take a work system

the leader in quote marks of the entity their stress levels will impact other people more than the other way around or people of equal status so you know the highly stressed boss as an example the the highly stressed parent interesting yeah well makes sense because if you think about it whether it's in the example of the silverback or you take a family system or you take a work system

the leader in quote marks of the entity their stress levels will impact other people more than the other way around or people of equal status so you know the highly stressed boss as an example the the highly stressed parent interesting yeah well makes sense because if you think about it whether it's in the example of the silverback or you take a family system or you take a work system

Well, I think the answer to that is both how do you reduce your own stress if you're the stressed person and how do you protect yourself from other people's stress? It's mostly through mindfulness activities. So activities that connect the brain and the body, because like I said, the glands in the brain. are talking to the adrenal glands and creating this stress situation.

Well, I think the answer to that is both how do you reduce your own stress if you're the stressed person and how do you protect yourself from other people's stress? It's mostly through mindfulness activities. So activities that connect the brain and the body, because like I said, the glands in the brain. are talking to the adrenal glands and creating this stress situation.

Well, I think the answer to that is both how do you reduce your own stress if you're the stressed person and how do you protect yourself from other people's stress? It's mostly through mindfulness activities. So activities that connect the brain and the body, because like I said, the glands in the brain. are talking to the adrenal glands and creating this stress situation.

So the way to decrease their activity is through activities like meditation, yoga, time in nature, journaling, gratitude, all of those things that reduce levels of cortisol. Move your autonomic nervous system, which is a nervous system in your body rather than your brain, from sympathetic, which is fright, flight, fight, to parasympathetic, which is rest and recover.

So the way to decrease their activity is through activities like meditation, yoga, time in nature, journaling, gratitude, all of those things that reduce levels of cortisol. Move your autonomic nervous system, which is a nervous system in your body rather than your brain, from sympathetic, which is fright, flight, fight, to parasympathetic, which is rest and recover.