Wednesday, September 08, 1999
Workshops teach stress-reduction
BY SUE MacDONALD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
If you're feeling stressed and overwhelmed, join the crowd.
Nearly everyone reports some level of stress in life, whether it's caused by kids, work, weather, traffic, technology, temperament, expectations or time demands (or all of the above).
If you feel as if everyone wants a little piece of you, or if you've arrived at a point in life that feels directionless, several programs dealing with stress and life direction will be offered starting in September in the Tristate. Among them:
• Women's Wellness Workshops, offered by psychologist Dr. Donna Kuhn and nurse-therapist Sylvia Tilton-Smith, both of Fairfield, begin Sept. 18. The sessions will discuss physical health, emotional/relational health, and spiritual/leisure health. It's geared to women who are “bombarded with stress from within, as well as stress from attempting to fill too many roles and please too many people.”
Sessions are 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturdays Sept. 18-Oct. 2 at 8200 Beckett Park Dr., West Chester. $45 a session, $125 series. 942-3271.
• "Balance or Burnout: A Matter of Margin” will be discussed by Dr. Richard Swenson, author of The Overload Syndrome and Margin, Sept. 25 in a program sponsored by Equipping Ministries International, based in Springdale. “If overload is sitting on our collective chests and blowing smoke in our faces, what we can do about it?” he writes in The Overload Syndrome. “Where is the pause button for this world? We need more time. We need more space. We need more reserves. We need more buffer. We need, in short, more margin.” Dr. Swenson was a private-practice physician for five years, taught 14 years at University of Wisconsin Medical School and is now director of Future Health Study Center at Tournier Institute.
His talk is 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 25 at Sharonville Convention Center. $45 a person for groups of four or more; $55 individuals before Friday, $65 after Friday. 742-1100.
• Women's Wellness Adventures, a weekend retreat for women at Hatfield Inn Bed and Breakfast in Lebanon, will be Sept 25-26 and Nov. 6-7. Stress-relief retreats include massage therapy, aromatherapy, workshops on communication and personality styles and more. $175 includes meals, tea time, lodging, treatments, books and more. (513) 932-9439.
• “Myths, Muses & Midlife” is a 12-week program offered by counselor and healing touch therapist Sophia Paparodis of Oakley. It's for women 35-55 “who are in the process of re-evaluating life” and searching for ways to use the experiences of the first half of life to make the second half more fulfilling, enriching and satisfying. The workshop combines creative expression, journal-writing and personal sharing to uncover values, meaning and goals.
Sessions will be 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays Sept. 28-Dec. 14 at 9686 U.S. 42 in Sharonville. $480; limited to 12 women. 961-6617.
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