Topic: Debbie Mandel

Coping with Job Loss

Judy Lederman knew that sales were slow - very slow - at the department-store chain where she worked as a public relations manager. Lederman, a 49-year-old single mother from Scarsdale, NY, had always been the employee who got superlative reviews, so she believed she ...

Feeling Down? Buy Lipstick

"We define ourselves by the mirror-the mirror on the wall and the mirror of ourselves with other women," says Debbie Mandel, author of Addicted to Stress. "In our society, it's about being thin and wearing makeup and we're bombarded with ...
The number of people who smoke, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has remained steady for the fifth year in a row. "I'm seeing an increase in bad lifestyle choices," confirms Jonathan Alpert, a ...
Growing up, Becca Fletcher loved being on stage, and she performed in theater productions all through her school years. So Fletcher found some local community theater groups and now performs in at least one major musical production a year. The benefits of ...
Workers with live plants in their office are happier on the job than their more nature-deprived counterparts, reports Texas A&M University. Japanese researchers found that simply imagining a calming scene can lower your levels of stress hormones. Tidying up at the ...
As net worths nosedive and layoffs loom, everyone is feeling anxious. In fact, a recent poll from the American Psychological Association found that 25% more women than men feel stressed about the economy.. The APA study found that women tend to report ...

Workplace Rudeness Breeds Trouble

But the toxic atmosphere that workplace rudeness can create is a factor HR leaders simply can't afford to ignore. "We're all going through a very hard time with the economy right now, people are stressed out, and rudeness at work ...

The Non-Divorce

That's why some couples choose to stay together, long after romance is dead, in a state of matrimony that can best be described as the " "We've seen the fall-out from divorce," says Debbie Mandel, a Lawrence, N.Y., stress-management specialist ...
When we forget our keys, a name or why we went to the grocery store in the first place, we feel apprehensive that perhaps we are in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Supplements don't work as well as real food ...
We are conditioned to use technology to communicate our innermost, sensitive and subtle feelings. When we write a love letter, we help ourselves sort out our relationship without pretense, and not just our connection to another person, but our inner-connection as we ...