Relax and reset at work: 'You really start to grow and create'

When lunch happens at your desk, is it really a break — or just another task?

You glance at emails — burning your tongue on microwaved leftovers — and maybe quickly respond to one or two.

Da-ding! Outlook tells you another email just arrived.

“Might as well check that one, too,” you think to yourself, blowing on last night’s dinner as it cools on your fork.

This might be standard practice on a busy day, but instead of getting ahead, are you harming your ability to work effectively? What about your mental health?

Instead of recharging, lunch at your desk can blur into more work — robbing you of the reset your brain and body need. Jessica Woodward of Soul Revival Retreats in Calgary sees this all the time.

“So many of my clients that are very stressed out and overloaded, they eat at