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Did you know that emotions and stress live in your body...physically?  That’s right, the emotions and stress you feel when you get overwhelmed when you are running late to work and someone blasts their horn at you,...that triggers a neurochemical response in your body that can be toxic to all the other vital systems in your body if it hangs out too long, like your cardiovascular system and your immune system. It also leads to burnout and emotional exhaustion.  So how do we get rid of all the stress juice pumping through our body every day so that we can feel better physically and protect our bodies?   Don’t they just leave on their own? Actually, no they don’t.  Our bodies stay in chronic activation unless we complete the cycle.  

This episode will help you figure out how to complete the stress cycle in your hectic schedule.

Take Aways:

1. The Ideas in this podcast were taken from the book "Burnout" by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nogoski.  Make sure you order this book or download it on Audible. It is amazing!
   
   


2. Women try to be everything and do everything that the world demands of us, and the problem isn’t that we don’t know how to practice self-care, it’s that it’s not realistic to meet our wellness goals unless we have a nanny, Oprah’s phone number, and lots of time and money
   
   


3. In Human Giver Syndrome, Philosopher Kate Mann describes the giver as someone who isn’t allowed to inconvenience anyone with anything so messy as emotions, so givers are trapped in a situation where they are not free to move through the tunnel.  The syndrom insists that self-preservation is selfish.
   
   


4. Emotions will end on their own, they are tunnels, and if you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Emotional exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion.
   
   


5. Stressors are things that can be thought of as threats and they trigger a stress response, a cascade of neurological and hormonal activities that initiate physiological changes to help you survive - that “fight or flight” response but deprioritize your other vital body systems.
   
   


6. We have to do something physical with our body to send the message that we are safe, and that we can downgrade our body's stress response.  We have to call off the troops, it’s ok to send those stress hormones home, and clear them out of your body.  This is called completing the cycle.
   
   


7. The best way to complete the cycle is with 20-60 minutes of exercise that gets you breathing deeply
   
   


8. Some alternative ways to complete the cycle are: breathing exercises, positive social interactions, laughter, affection from humans or pets, crying, and creative expression - such as music, dancing, painting, etc