This Expert Shows You How to Keep Your Cool This Yule

While the holidays are supposed to be a season for rejoicing, they can also be very stressful. As Stress Coach Jackie Ferguson points out, the added anxiety of the season can make you sick... and fat! Ferguson notes that there is a direct link between stress and various medical conditions, including weight gain, irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, cardiovascular disease, depression and a host of other ailments. This is the bad news about stress.

Ferguson shares the GREAT news, too: get more breaks away from your stress to minimize its damage and to get into stress shape for the holidays.  Be prepared for a lively show with practical information that will benefit your listeners. Jackie will reveal:

• The role the stress hormone cortisol plays in causing symptoms ranging from diabetes to depression, indigestion to panic attacks.

• How she was able to effectively cope with some incredibly stressful times in her own life, including caring for her two elderly, ill parents simultaneously, by practicing what she preaches.

• Simple yet amazingly effective techniques, some of which take just minutes, that get you into great “stress shape” for the holidays, by releasing and relaxing your stress energy. Check out what other hosts say about Jackie as a guest and listen to a live interview by clicking on “Jackie in Action” at www.letyourbody.win.com.

CREDENTIALS: Jackie Ferguson is the author of LET YOUR BODY WIN: Stress Management Plain & Simple. A renowned stress coach, she has designed and presented programs that have benefited hundreds of thousands of people worldwide; is a licensed mental health counselor with a master’s degree in psychology; and for over five years has written a weekly Stress for Success column for a Gannett Newspaper.

AVAILABILITY: Florida, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone

CONTACT: Jackie Ferguson, (239) 693-8111 (FL); JFerg8@aol.com