StressWell

Ready to get started? A great place to start the stresswell™ program would be with a Stresswell™ Appraisal.

What is the Stresswell™ Appraisal?

The Stresswell™ Appraisal is a process that can help objectively determine your body’s overall ability to create health and be well. It’s an especially helpful tool in looking at a part of the health-illness continuum that is often overlooked in typical health checkups (see diagram below).

A typical health checkup focuses on the left side of the continuum (the treatment paradigm) that spans from “neutral” (i.e., not yet sick, but not well either). In contrast, the Stresswell™ Appraisal process addresses the entire continuum with a focus on creating high-level wellness, no matter what your starting point is within the process:

• If you’re generally healthy (i.e., “not sick”), the Stresswell™ Appraisal will help you identify “at-risk” areas in your lifestyle that need improvement to help keep you healthy.
• If you’re not as healthy as you’d like to be (e.g., have one or more chronic health concerns), the Stresswell™ Appraisal will help you take control to become a more proactive partner in your own healing process.
• If you’re living with a life-threatening disease, the Stresswell™ Appraisal will help you focus on those elements of your illness that you can control to maintain and/or improve your desired quality of life.

No matter what your starting point, the Stresswell™ Appraisal will help you become more attuned to your body, mind and spirit so that you can awaken the healing force inside you.

Testimonial: Stress may be “a global epidemic,” but you don’t have to succumb to this fate. The first step is to assess your health status. Mary Elaine Kiener’s Stresswell™ Appraisal is by far, one of the best assessments to determine your physical stress. If you value your health, the Stresswell™ Appraisal is the next step that empowers you to make effective changes toward optimal wellness. Brian Luke Seaward, PhD, Author of Managing Stress and Achieving the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection.

What’s included in the Stresswell™ Appraisal?

Each Stresswell™ Appraisal includes two fundamental core components:

• The Stress Profiler contains a simple, self-scoring stress test that measures 10 different categories of stress (see diagram below). This 16-page booklet also provides an overview of each category and offers suggestions and resources for making changes.

• The Wellness Inventory is an online, wellness-enhancing, life-balance program that assesses your state of wellbeing in 12 key areas (see diagram at right). The Wellness Inventory provides an excellent tool for identifying your key areas of strength, as well as the areas in which you are most motivated to change, when then become the cornerstones of your personal wellness program. The annual subscription enables you to create and implement your own personal health coaching system for a full twelve months. You will also have the opportunity to re-test yourself during the subscription period.

Testimonials:

The Wellness Inventory is GREAT! I enjoyed taking it, and the results are very impactful. The pie chart is quite a “wake-up” call! Should be very helpful for those who understand the mind/body/spirit connection. Eve Hady, Certified Hypnotherapist

I was recently reminded by the automatic Wellness Inventory about the changes I wanted to do in my life. It was pretty eye-opening when I realized that I was pretty much in the same patterns I used to have. But a couple changes were made, so those made me happy. I like the reminders, because I get SO BUSY that I forget to take care of myself, and this is a good reminder of that. Jane Oelke, ND, PhD, Author of Natural Choices for Fibromyalgia and Natural Choices for Attention Deficit Disorder

If you’d like, you can purchase a basic “Barebones” Stresswell™ Appraisal package for $50 (includes The Stress Profiler and Wellness Inventory). However, I also have two other options available, which provide you the opportunity to receive more in-depth, physiological information (based on simple urine and saliva tests):

1. Standard “Do-it-Yourself” Stresswell™ Appraisal Package ($85). In addition to The Stress Profiler and Wellness Inventory year-long online subscription (described above), this package includes:
   • Sympathetic Stress Assessment Kit (including pH paper). This simple 5-minute saliva pH Challenge in-home test helps detect deep levels of physical and mental stress.
   • Oxidative Stress Assessment Kit (Oxidata Test). This non-invasive 5-minute in-home urine test measures the amount of free radicals (oxidants) in the body. This enables you to measure the amount of oxidative stress your body is enduring.
   • An introductory Stresswell™ Appraisal Resource Guide. This guide includes over 25 pages of detailed information and worksheets to help you better understand the two assessments and to begin to make desired changes in your health and lifestyle behaviors.
2. Comprehensive “Fixer-Upper” Stresswell™ Appraisal Package ($195). This package includes all of the above assessments, plus:
   • Integra Bio-Terrain System Assessment. The Integra Bio-Terrain System offers an in-depth assessment of your body’s overall ability to create health. [N.B. This option requires two days of special dietary restrictions prior to collection and submission of a urine sample.]
   • A comprehensive Bio-Terrain Assessment Report.
   • A comprehensive Stresswell™ Appraisal Resource Guide. This guide includes over 45 pages of detailed information and worksheets to help you better understand your assessment results and to begin to make desired changes in your health and lifestyle behaviors.

Testimonial: “Mary Elaine Kiener, RN, PhD has created a unique program that will change how you handle stress. The Stresswell™ Appraisal Resource Guide is an easy-to-understand, beautifully assembled companion to the Stresswell™ Appraisal report. Combined with her compassionate and insightful coaching and healthful products, this program is definitely a keeper. Bobbie Burdett, Authentic-Life Coaching

So here are your options:

Still on the fence? No problem. Here are some options at this point:

1. Check out my blog. I call it “Stresswell™ Snippets.” It’s a great way to get better acquainted with me and stresswell™.
2. Ask me any question that is in your mind or on your heart about the Stresswell™ Appraisal. I want you to make a decision that is right for you. You can ask your question here.
3. If you haven’t tried this yet, the Sympathetic Stress Assessment: A Saliva pH Challenge Test is a simple 5-minute test of your body’s response to stress.