Easily Adapt Well in the Face of Stress

Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Stress comes in many main forms including.

  1. Routine stress, includes getting yourself and others to places on time, financial stress, predicting the future stress, work pressures, relationship struggles, (including the relationship you have with yourself.

  2. Sudden, disruptive change, such as job loss or family or friend bereavement, finding out you have an illness.

  3. Chronic stress, from unhelpful lifestyle patterns (minimal movement during the week and dramatic movement of exercise on the weekends), unsupportive eating or lack of nutrition or over indulgence, negative thought patterns, shallow breathing patterns, poor posture, feeling unloved, poor sleep routines, medicines, unhappiness, dissatisfaction and overworking.

Sometimes we fail to recognise our own stressors and their impact on our bodies. We chase more exercise, more rigid eating patterns and styles, in an attempt to curb the following symptoms of broken cortisol patterns and adrenal dysfunction;

  • Loss of libido

  • Bumby energy throughout the day

  • Feeling tired but wired

  • Not seeing the gains from your workouts

  • Injuries that mainly end in “itis”

  • Abrupt sugar and carb cravings

  • Second-rate digestion = bloating, constipation, diarrhea

There are simple ways to restore your body and to love yourself again. Consider the following just for starters;

  • Aim for enough sleep that allows you to feel rested and ready for the following day.

  • Don’t eat within 2 to 3 hours of sleep.

  • Get in touch for some simple but powerfully effective breathing exercises.

  • Infrared sauna at least once per week.

  • Check in with your time management skills (or ask for assistance)

  • Give Carbohydrate back-loading a try (not familiar with this term? send me an email and I will explain)

  • Hydration

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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