Financial stress behind mental health insurance claim spikes
Financial stress behind mental health insurance claim spikes. New research reveals that financial stress is a hidden mental health trigger for Australians to submit insurance claims, part of a trend alarming the life insurance industry. The financial stress burden faced by Australians is, according to analysis by Rice Warner, a major factor in the escalating […]
Financial stress devastating Australians
Financial stress devastating Australians, close to 1 in 3 Australians suffer from significant financial stress, which has for the first time been comprehensively examined in new research by CoreData. The results show financial stress leads to anti-social behaviour, relationship conflict and breakdown, isolation, sleep loss and symptoms of depression. Most of us are aware of […]
Financial stress is widespread for Australians
Financial stress is widespread for Australians. Financial Mindfulness released its latest Financial Stress Survey and the results showed just how much damage financial stress is causing. The Sydney Morning Herald covered the story. Nearly one in three Australians is feeling financially stressed, with damaging effects on mental and physical health and social relationships. The CoreData/Financial […]
Financial stress: 9 out of 10 suffering
Financial stress: 9 out of 10 suffering. We asked you, our Financial Mindfulness Facebook family – across Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom – to take part in a survey about financial stress in your life. The results are in. Financial stress, which comes with a strong set of beliefs, is a huge […]
Mindfulness practice reduces time off work for anxiety sufferers
Mindfulness practice reduces time off work for anxiety sufferers. Working with someone who is extremely anxious isn’t always fun, but it’s worth remembering stress hits everyone, including us. Anxiety disorders are by some measures the most common mental health issues in the western world, even more common than depression. Previously research has shown sufferers of […]
The staggering costs of personal financial stress at work
The staggering costs of personal financial stress at work. For a while we’ve known that financial stress has an impact on our productivity at work. But how much worse financially sick staff fare compared to their financially healthy colleagues will come as a shock. It’s clear absenteeism and presenteeism is rife amongst employees feeling financially […]
Employees want help with their financial stress
Employees want help with their financial stress. Does it strike you as strange that the biggest stressor we face isn’t talked about in plans offered to help with our stress? In recent years employers have recognised the personal stresses experienced by staff can affect productivity and the bottom line, due partly to the sheer amount […]
Mindfulness could complement CBT interventions for depression
Mindfulness could complement CBT interventions for depression. Anyone who has been truly depressed understands how vast the difference is between knowing it’s helpful to talk to people and regularly being able to connect with others. Depression, and its nagging stablemate, anxiety, often render a person so exhausted and full of self-doubt that it feels impossible to […]
Send yourself a valuable gift: get mindful
Send yourself a valuable gift: get mindful. Why do we spend money to feel good now, even if it’s clearly going to have negative consequences later? And why do we seem to make better decisions if they are planned and not impulsive? The answers are complex, but just so you really get the idea, first imagine […]
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me. Mindfulness, in theory, sounds great. The deal seems to be roughly this: if I sit still and listen to my breathing for 10 minutes each day I will be calmer, certainly cooler, possibly richer and definitely an all-round better person. So how come it’s not working, you might ask, […]