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September 23, 2015

Smoking Is Actually Good for You! Scientists Discover New Weapon in Battle for Workplace Wellness

By Warren Holleman

Updated March 9, 2017

A new study, scheduled to be published this week in the journal Lancet, will present “compelling evidence” for a controversial approach to promoting employee health. “We’re going to teach employees how to smoke cigarettes,” says Dr. Akhila Thomas, MD, lead author of the study and a professor at Houston’s Altria School of Public Health. At a press conference yesterday, Dr. Thomas explained: “We believe smoking might just be the ‘magic bullet’ to bring America’s over-stressed, overweight, sedentary, socially isolated, electronically intexticated workforce back to healthy work-styles and lifestyles.”

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September 11, 2015

Stress Management Tip #1: Give Your Stress a Number

By Warren Holleman

Tracking your stress level doesn’t fix anything, but it does help you to become more aware of what it is you’re dealing with. This awareness, or mindfulness, is an essential skill for managing stress.

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September 1, 2015

Lovebirds, or Married to Medicine

by Warren Holleman

For better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health

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August 26, 2015

Do you wear your stress on your sleeve, as a badge of your professional honor?

By Warren Holleman

Hard work is a virtue. Caring deeply about the quality of our work is a virtue. If you’re in the health professions, the helping professions, the teaching professions, or any other service profession, your “work” is people. Your job is to help people. Caring deeply about the quality of your work means you care deeply about people. That’s a good thing.

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August 18, 2015

Is work-life balance attainable, or are we dreaming the impossible dream?

By Warren Holleman

To me, work-life balance boils down to three things: (1) finding satisfaction and meaning in my work; (2) finding love and happiness in my family and among my friends; and, (3) finding time to take good care of me. And finding it every day of my life–not at some far-off point in the future.

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