LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) - More than 150 local businesswomen gathering to network and learn how to take better care of themselves.
Most women are juggling schedules that can make your head spin, and local health officials say they need to take a breath and reset. The group hearing from mental health and cardiac care professionals about how ongoing high stress lifestyle can affect your overall health. Your body releases hormones that can adversely cause both physical and mental health issues that can be linked together - issues, that if addressed early, can be handled.
The group hearing from mental health and cardiac care professionals about how ongoing high stress lifestyle can affect your overall health.
"We may notice that there's a little bit more hopelessness, or we're not finding joy in the things that we used to find joy in," said JJ Truman, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with Lima Memorial. "Those are some real good signs that it might be time to seek some help, or re-evaluate priorities too."
"If you start having some kind of weird chest discomfort, shortness of breath - maybe without chest discomfort - but you start walking up steps and think, 'Golly, last month, I could do this without a problem, now I'm short of breath,' something's changed and you need to get checked," said Dr. Pamela Gardner, Lima Memorial cardiologist.
Women in Business is a quarterly event through the Lima/Allen County Chamber of Commerce.
