Category: Stress

Supporting Minerals For A Healthy Stress Response

Not only can we minimize stressors using nutrition but we can also strengthen our body’s ability to handle stress through nutrition principles. I am going to dig into specific minerals we can focus on prioritizing without having any testing done, but make sure you are eating enough (I talk about how to know if you […]
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5 things that impact lymphatic flow

Let’s dive deep into the lymph’s main functions and how it works. 1. Protection: The lymphatic system helps fight diseases and infections by producing and releasing white blood cells and other immune cells to fight against foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi. 2. Regulation: Drains the lymph (extra fluid) from the body […]
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How to stimulate your vagus nerve

Before reading this post lets stimulate your vagus nerve! 1. Breathe in through your nose as you count to 4 in your head: 1-2-3-4.2. Breathe out through pressed lips as you count to 8 in your head: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8.3. Repeat twice. Congratulations, you’ve just stimulated your vagus nerve. Do you feel more calm? Less anxious? Clearer-minded? […]
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My Number One Way To Reduce Stress

To put it simply, my number one way to reduce stress is to stop rushing. I truly believe that if you can stop rushing, you can start healing. When we are constantly rushing from one thing to the next, rushing through meals, and always thinking about what’s coming next, we are never present. This puts […]
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As estrogen increases cortisol increases

The majority of my clients struggle with estrogen dominant symptoms such as acne, hair loss, weight gain/difficulty losing weight, waking at night, low blood sugars, hypothyroidism, heavy, painful periods, bloating, and so much more. It can be hard to decipher where these symptoms come from since they can all seem like they stem from different […]
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The ways mental and emotional stress can increase estrogen

In this post we are digging into mental and emotional stressors. When we experience excess stress over long periods we get an increase in cortisol. This leads to more cortisol binding proteins to bind to excess cortisol. Unfortunately, these also bind to progesterone leading to lower progesterone levels, higher cortisol, and high estrogen. Mental and […]
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A Brain Based Approach To Healing

What is a brain-based approach to healing? brain-based coach, Alyssa Chang, describes it as the following: “A brain-based approach to healing looks at everything from a nervous system perspective with the understanding that our brain and body are always trying to orient us more toward safety and survival.” The best way to describe a brain-based […]
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Nutrition is one of the top ways to reduce stress within the body

Stress is often viewed as a thing, but it’s really a response within the body. ⁣⁣Gabor Mate gives this great description of stress in his book, When The Body Says No:⁣⁣“Stress is a biological process, a wide-ranging set of events in the body, irrespective of cause or of subjective awareness. Stress consists of the internal […]
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Stress Equals Energy Loss

When the body is under stress, it uses up more energy in order to carry out our stress response and give us the best chance at responding to whatever the threat is. Many of us are already dealing with slowed energy production aka a slow metabolism. This is often related to chronic mental or physical […]
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Its not the stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it

Are you resilient to stress? I used to handle stress very poorly. Loud noises would make me jump, I cried easily, took offense to everything, and generally felt exhausted. This made me feel crazy because I was doing so much for my health. Why was nothing enough? Turns out, I was doing too much. Intermittent […]
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