STRESS LESS
Stress is an inevitable part of life. When the total amount of stress you experience exceeds your ability to cope with it, stress wreaks havoc on your health. Stress management can be a difficult change to make. With small tweaks and adjustments, you can give yourself the time you need to cope and heal from the damage stress does to our bodies and minds.
Some ways to minimize the impact of stress include:
Reduction in exposure to physiological or psychological stress
Mitigate the harmful effects of the stress you can’t avoid
Breathing techniques for handling stress daily
Adopt strategies for stress management
Bodies will provide you with tools and resources to reduce the amount of stress you experience, assist you in changing thought patterns and perceptions of stress, find options for stress management that work for you and your life, and of course, help you make SLEEP a priority. Movement, light exposure, nutrition, stimulant consumption, meditation practice, outdoor time and play (yes, PLAY!) all play an important role in stress management. We will give you what you need to make small changes that will give your stress load a big overhaul.
TRUTH: I used to hold on to my stress so hard until I had to eat a whole pie to let that ish go. My body was like a box of rocks. I found meditation and it moved the needle for me. I want to walk with you through learning how to find more zen in your life.
Tips for Making Life Easier
One of the authors and spiritual guides I’ve connected with is Gabby Bernstein. A friend and I recently completed 21 days of meditation with her guidance and I’m constantly learning more about meditation and prayer. I LOVE it. Don’t read that and think it’s easy. It can be a struggle oftentimes, and it requires discipline. But I love opening my heart to a deeper connection with God. Learning to live in the flow, stop resisting, and being open to what God wants for my life is making my life 1. More exciting 2. More fun! 3. EASIER. Ahhhhhh! Life is hard sometimes, let’s explore ways to make it easier!
Learning to Surrender
Learning to surrender has been a challenging process. I can finally say with utter honesty in my heart and my head: I am OK if we do or do not live in that house. And life is so much easier now! I feel FREE. It’s not that I don’t care, it’s just that I TRUST in whatever the outcome is! Here are the steps that helped me on my journey to surrender.
Prioritizing Self Care (So Your Neck Won’t Hurt)
I’m making a commitment to myself to make my own self care a priority. Because when I have a pain in the neck, I can BE a pain in the neck. I don’t want to be a pain in the neck! So I’m committing to at least TWO forms of self care daily until I feel like myself again.
Here are FIFTY ideas that I love that I’m checking of one by one and incorporating many of them in my personal self care routine:
The Lie of Beauty and Youth PLUS: 7 Steps to Fight the Beauty Myth
The lie begins with our need to be beautiful in a particular way, and the need to be eternally young.
Society has done a number on us, and we are buying the heck out of what culture is selling us.
Women whip ourselves when we look in the mirror. Truthfully, we are doing this to ourselves. While creation has dictated that women ARE objects of beauty, we have deeply internalized it as our inherent value. Culture has told us, repeatedly, we can only be desirable if we look a certain way. The standard is white, thin, smooth all over, with flowing locks. And the sad news is that we have bought this lie, repeatedly, from a multi-billion dollar beauty industry. It is a tough battle to lay down our lipstick and walk away.
Discover Your Dharma
On this journey to figuring out my purpose, certain books, podcasts, meditations and people, have presented themselves to me. One book I recently enjoyed was, “Discovering Your Dharma” by Sahara Rose. Rose offers insights into pulling from within to gain clarity and insight around why we are here and what we’re supposed to do.
Here are a few of my favorite tips from her book.
