Stress Can Be Healthy

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This is long WINDed 😉

I love how nature teaches us lessons everyday

In 2012, scientists studied the effects of putting plants in an optimal indoor environment

Initially they saw how much faster trees grew inside vs. outside 😲

But the indoor trees 🌳 stopped maturing and instead drooped over 🧐

They found trees were missing a primary element, 

Wind 💨

🌳 Trees need the stress of wind to build deeper roots and stronger bark

Both roots and bark allow trees to fully mature and last decades

𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝑻𝑯𝑹𝑰𝑽𝑬

And it’s the same for humans

Without stress we can grow to a certain point, 

𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒐r

side note and plug for your bones…

Our Bones Need Physical Stress (in many directions) so we can Keep Bending without breaking.

Back to the blog…

💨We need stress to keep moving and standing tall in our family and community.

The problem is our stress is wildly out of control - making it really hard to find time to put your physical needs on the list.

And that goes for ME too!

❌ A few years ago, I had so much stress, from not putting my body on the list

I couldn’t tolerate standing or sitting in wind. The stress of wind was too much on my nervous system and totally wore me out.

And I thought I was managing my stress…by ignoring it even existed🙈 (DO NOT RECOMMEND 1 out of 5 stars for ignoring!)

Which meant

🙈I did embarrassing things to “manage” my “non-exsistent” stress like
Getting angry when things were not as I pictured

and each time I’d come home to a house that wasn’t tidy 

I was frustrated no one else saw the mess but me 😡

But I would rarely yell

Usually
I’d swallow my anger and move on

That anger and ignoring I was burnt out in traditional healthcare system, that I deeply thought I loved, and stressed from being a working mom, gave me

😩 shooting pain into my hip, low back and searing through my mid back.

“Swallowing” the stress is how I managed it.

😶Never giving it a voice or awareness

Slowly eating away at me for 🔟+ years. 

To the point I thought I had to live with the pain.

And pain turned me into a lava monster 😕

Once I started to slow down, breathe and become an observer of these thoughts keeping me stuck in stress (pain) mode I turned a corner and had so much more space in my life.

Which reduced pain and progressed me back to doing the physical activities that bring me so much joy!

Like sitting and standing outside playing with my kids and watching them compete in sport.

The 2️⃣ things I started with to create my own stress management plan was

1️⃣ Breath-work with mindset 

2️⃣ lovingly moving my body

So team - I invite you to check in on your stress - give it voice and simply admit that it exists.

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