Love and Relationship Expert

Read about the feel good factor at: http://bit.ly/R6muHN This excellent article contains useful tips for dealing with stress and anxiety or just feeling low after the excitement of the summer holidays and the Olympics.

Stress gives us plenty of warning that it is creeping up on us and doing us harm but more than not we choose to ignore the warning signs. That extra glass of wine each night, drunk in an attempt to blot out stress-related negative feelings is only the beginning. Because adrenaline runs high in a stressed people, we may take unnecessary or unusual risks and we may experience frequent headaches and problems with our digestive system and mood swings/ temper tantrums may become a feature of a normally well balanced person.

February 14th is literally a red letter day! However not everyone will be all smiles as an estimated 180 million cards are delivered.

For many, Valentine's day is a day filled with expectation of love and romance. But for many others, it is just another day of media hype and commercialism. For some it will be a day filled with cards, chocolates and roses but for many it will be a day tinged with sadness with no red envelope dropping onto our doorstep.

Do the unexpected – take home a bunch of flowers, write a 'thinking of you' text message, send an email or make a phone call just to show someone you care.

In your enthusiasm to please others whether it is at home or at work, it is all too easy to take on too much and put yourself under extreme pressure. Eventually that pressure may turn to stress and then you will begin to achieve less and less and just get angry with yourself.

Low self-esteem is often the root cause of a desire to please everybody all of the time and somehow the word "NO" does not come into your vocabulary.