STRESS MANAGEMENT
- Is stress hindering you from being your best?
- Are you drained and are having a difficult time navigating to a stressful environment?
Health Coaches can encourage clients to engage in activities to help to manage stress. Activities such as deep breathing, journaling, practicing gratitude. You are the expert of your body. A health coach can help you with the awareness of triggers, body responses, things that you do that already work for you.
In my personal practice I focus on stress management because a talk Lissa Rankin, MD made a profound impact on me. In her talk she discussed a community that she worked with in San Franciso Bay Area who was a very health conscious community. This community drank green juice, went to chiropractors, ate vegan diets, meditated, had the best of western medicine in the country; yet, they were the sickest people she had ever seen. Chronic stress was one of the causes of their illness. Chronic stress can lower and destroy the body’s natural healing qualities. This example showed that healthy habits are not powerful enough to contend with the negative impact of chronic stress on the body. Stress also has a strong correlation to diabetes. Stress can influence weight gain.
Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70VpNGdTGng
Strategies:
- Physical Movement
- Creative expression
- Connect with others (people and/or pets)
- Connect with nature
- Listen to music
- Refrain from negativity
- Changing your story
