STRESS LESS

Stress is an inevitable part of life. When the total amount of stress you experience exceeds your ability to cope with it, stress wreaks havoc on your health. Stress management can be a difficult change to make. With small tweaks and adjustments, you can give yourself the time you need to cope and heal from the damage stress does to our bodies and minds.

Some ways to minimize the impact of stress include:

Reduction in exposure to physiological or psychological stress
Mitigate the harmful effects of the stress you can’t avoid

Breathing techniques for handling stress daily
Adopt strategies for stress management

Bodies will provide you with tools and resources to reduce the amount of stress you experience, assist you in changing thought patterns and perceptions of stress, find options for stress management that work for you and your life, and of course, help you make SLEEP a priority. Movement, light exposure, nutrition, stimulant consumption, meditation practice, outdoor time and play (yes, PLAY!) all play an important role in stress management. We will give you what you need to make small changes that will give your stress load a big overhaul.

TRUTH: I used to hold on to my stress so hard until I had to eat a whole pie to let that ish go. My body was like a box of rocks. I found meditation and it moved the needle for me. I want to walk with you through learning how to find more zen in your life.

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5 Books Recs to Help You Grow

Let’s READ friends!!! I LOVE books!
I find myself recommending certain books over and over, and recently a friend said to me, “Can you just make me a list?” YES! Yes, I can do that!!
Here you will find a list of 5 books that inspired me to think, change, grow, and/or helped me to understand myself, humans, particularly the people I live with, on a deeper level. I’ll tell you a little bit about why I loved the book and my key takeaway for each.

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Giving

My sweet husband has been preaching a series of sermons around a book written by the former CEO of World Vision, Richard Stearns, called “A Hole in Our Gospel.” The idea behind the book is that we should not be so focused on getting to heaven, but rather by bringing heaven to earth. And how do we do that? It’s by serving others. It’s by giving and treating people the way we would want them to treat us.
Every moment of our lives is an opportunity to serve others. Can we commit decision by decision to this heartfelt approach to life?

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Prioritizing Self Care (So Your Neck Won’t Hurt)

I’m making a commitment to myself to make my own self care a priority. Because when I have a pain in the neck, I can BE a pain in the neck. I don’t want to be a pain in the neck! So I’m committing to at least TWO forms of self care daily until I feel like myself again.
Here are FIFTY ideas that I love that I’m checking of one by one and incorporating many of them in my personal self care routine:

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7 Reasons to Get Away with Friends

It’s easy as sleeping in to come up with 6,369 reasons to not plan a getaway with your girlfriends. Life, work, responsibilities are always creeping around in your brain and marching like toy soldiers all over your multiple to-do lists. It’s amazing how we juggle it all.
Let me tell you the truth: people can manage without you.
And it’s important to give yourself that time away. SO, SO important.

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Set Your Intention

Think about the last time you set an intention. What was it about? Did you see it through to completion? As a business owner, my intentions are often around what I’d like to accomplish in my business. I want to be intentional about my intention- the WHY behind what I intend to accomplish.
If I intend to grow my business, what is it that I really desire?
Find out how to be more intentional with what you want to accomplish in your life.

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The Lie of Beauty and Youth PLUS: 7 Steps to Fight the Beauty Myth

The lie begins with our need to be beautiful in a particular way, and the need to be eternally young.

Society has done a number on us, and we are buying the heck out of what culture is selling us.

Women whip ourselves when we look in the mirror. Truthfully, we are doing this to ourselves. While creation has dictated that women ARE objects of beauty, we have deeply internalized it as our inherent value. Culture has told us, repeatedly, we can only be desirable if we look a certain way. The standard is white, thin, smooth all over, with flowing locks. And the sad news is that we have bought this lie, repeatedly, from a multi-billion dollar beauty industry. It is a tough battle to lay down our lipstick and walk away.

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How to Beat the ‘Sunday Scaries’ and Enjoy Your Whole Weekend

Have you ever experienced a feeling of dread before the beginning of a new work week? If so, you’re not alone! The “Sunday scaries” are a form of anticipatory anxiety that tend to show up when we’re nervous about the week ahead. This feeling of nervousness can make it tough to enjoy your Sunday and reap the benefits of a relaxing break from work. Thankfully, we’ve assembled some great resources to help you relieve the Sunday scaries and take back your weekend!

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8 Tips for How to Trust Yourself Deeply

We all have access to this part of ourselves that helps to develop the muscle of trusting the guiding voice within. The inner mentor is one tool that can help us to find our voice, stand in our power, and trust that we can reach our goals, even when we make mistakes.

The following are 8 ways to develop a deeper level of self-trust.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Tips to stand up for yourself:
Be transparent and authentic. Expressing yourself openly and honestly is a powerful practice. Remain calm. If we get defensive and reactive, we tend to speak from fear rather than our power. Start with clarifying questions. Calmly explain where you are coming from to gain understanding. Be straightforward. Own your feelings. Practice being assertive.

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What Do You Fear?

Fear doesn’t prevent death. Fear prevents life. A choice based on fear leads to consequences lacking from growth. Fear does have a place in life. Fear is meant to protect us from harm. Where fear prevents life, is when we habitually dwell on the worst that could happen, and live according to that scenario.

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