Moderate to severe stress is being experienced by over 75% of the population – DAILY – according to the most recent survey by the American Psychological Association.

 Yet, most people do not address the stress. Do you underestimate your ability to manage it?

Are you like many who are trying to speed up to catch up? Tired? Irritable? Struggle with weight gain?  Ignoring problems does not make them go away – eventually – it all comes right back at you.

The damaging impact of stress is your perception of what is happening and your emotional reaction to it. Learning to manage your reactions is critical to live stress free!

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Want to learn simple, proven tools you can use throughout your day to reset your nervous system?

 Are you experiencing any of these negative consequences of stress?

• fatigue
• joint aches
• irritability
• sleeplessness
• headaches
• low mood
• anxiety

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Let’s face it, as you run through your day, you grab and go eating processed food usually high in sugar and fat. The rushing around fuels hunger for more sugar, surges your cortisol telling your body to store fat and setting you up for more aches, pain, confusion and even dis-ease. Our 10-20 days programs are designed to break habits, eliminate cravings and get you off to a good start toward vibrant and radiant health!

Unrelenting stress depresses your immune system, setting you up for more colds, flu. Your digestive system is impaired and slows down. During the stress response all the blood is shunted away from your stomach and intestines and goes to your muscles giving you the energy needed to flee. Yet with chronic stress, you don’t actually flee so you end up with muscle aches from the tension, fatigue not to mention a sense of hopelessness from feeling like you are going around in circles.

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What to shift out of negative, hopeless thinking?

A giraffe may be able to go weeks without sleep but for optimal performance the next day, you need 8-9 hours of quality sleep.

The body does a lot of hard work when you sleep, muscle repair,  your memory is firming up,  hormones are released especially for appetite and growth and your overall well being is restored.  

Sleep is restorative. Quality sleep supports your immune system as well as balancing your appetite by regulating the hormones, ghrelin and leptin, found to play a role in satiety and fullness. Do you find yourself eating more when you have been low on quality sleep?

 I often would hear people claim that “sleep time” is a waste of time and yet, this time is what makes the rest of your life better! Read on the learn why.

The belief that can make up sleep is actually a myth, simply not true. You actually accrue a “sleep debt” and ultimately you crash or develop health problems.

Let’s take a look at the phases of sleep.

For the majority of the night you are in non REM sleep.  In the first phase of sleep, you are in a light sleep and may even go between awake and falling asleep.  

The “stress” hormone cortisol ideally decreases in the evening and then is at its lowest at night with it rising in the morning in order to wake up and be alert. When stress is chronic, cortisol can actually peak at night. Do you get a “second wind” and have extra energy at night? This happens when you eat late at night also.  Cortisol then drops in the morning in this reversed Cortisol cycle, making it difficult to focus and or concentrate in the morning.

It is important to turn this back around because the lack of quality sleep increases fatigue and sets you up for a more chronic stress pattern and or adrenal exhaustion.

The next phase is the beginning of sleep. You lose your awareness of the surroundings, body temperature drops and breathing and heart rate are regular.

In deep sleep, Stages 3 and 4, you enter the most restorative phase of sleep. Blood pressure drops, your muscles relax, blood supply increases to muscles and repair and tissue growth occur, energy is restored, growth hormone is released as are other hormones.

In Rapid Eye Movement (REM) which accounts for about 25% of the night, your brain is very active, you dream, muscle may become immobile, energy is restored supporting optimal performance the next day.

REM sleep occurs in the first 90 minutes of sleep and then every 90 minutes thereafter with longer cycles as the night goes on.

Ways to improve the quality of sleep:

1. Sleep in a darkened room
2. Go to sleep the same time every night, wake up the same time
3. Do not eat right before bed. Not only does this contribute to weight gain due to  interference with a fat burning hormone, leptin, but it puts added pressure on your heart.
4. Keep your room free from the drama and violence of TV. If you need to have something on, place soft music, preferably classical.
5. Keep water and a notebook by your bed in case you wake up during the night and think of something to do or have an idea. Writing it down will allow your mind to relax again and fall back asleep.
6. Sleep in a cool room.
7. Free your bedroom of clutter.
8. Tell yourself as you lay down, you will have a restful and deep sleep, waking up at the time you desire.

If your sleep cycle is off, I highly recommend Cortisol Manager. This has great reviews by my clients for its rapid results in deepening sleep and helping people stay asleep. Stress, hormonal imbalance, age all interfere with the ability to stay asleep. This product can be used as needed however I recommend you use if every night for 3months and then as needed.

Theanine and GABA are also great products, all natural approaches to relax your mind and body to help you get to sleep.

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