Lopa Van Der Mersch: Setting the Record Straight about Coffee, Why It’s Addictive, and How to De-Stress Without It
Lopa van der Mersch is many things: Serial entrepreneur. Mother of two. Sustainability freak. TEDx speaker. Five years ago, she added a new chapter: Founder and CEO of Rasa, the adaptogenic coffee alternatives transforming the way we energize. 

But do you really know what happens to your body when we drink coffee? Lopa does, and she’s here to set the record straight! Both Kristy and Lopa know first hand the suffocating stress of juggling being a mom, running a business, and trying to have a personal life?! Culturally, one of the go-to ways that people curb stress and stay alert is to drink coffee…. yet at a neuro-chemical level, Lopa emphasizes how coffee is only making our stress worse! Did you know caffeine essentially tricks our body into staying awake? We didn’t! Plus, let’s not forget how ritualistic and emotional drinking coffee can be for many of us, which makes it so hard to kick indefinitely. Lopa highlights how coffee has become in-service to the ways we’ve not only commodified our sense of self, but also our sense of productivity, time, energy, and how we spend it.