I am not enough… Not healed enough to start helpingNot knowledgeable enough to start teachingNot big enough to step into that calling What if your healing exists in your helping ?What if your wisdom is waiting in the teaching ?What if your growth happens by stepping anyway ? Stop waiting to “perfect” to offer your …
You may be asking is she really qualified to be talking about this stuff?… Most of you know I am a first responder myself but what about the nutrition stuff? So I thought I’d take a minute to share a little bit about my journey I got my start reading fitness magazines in the dark …
Not a Note to the worldNote to SelfThat the highest version of myself is always availableChoose her
If you could pick a word/ phrase to describe the past two years as a first responder, what would it be? Mine, Burnout I did my fair share of beating myself up about it too That I didn’t handle the stress like I “should” have .. I knew betterBut I didn’t I do betterI rode …
Chronic Stress part 2 for first responders, I bet you haven’t heard of this yet.. Read More »
Side effects may include.. 📌 Improved mood 😃📌 Increased Energy ⚡️📌 Clarity 👓📌 Internal satisfaction ❤️📌 Physical Strength 💪🏼📌 Mental Strength 📌 Radiance & Glow 💡📌 Increased creativity ✍️📌 Motivation 🔥📌 Overall wellness and Growth 🌱📌 Feeling unstoppable 🚆📌 Connection with your personal Power 💥📌 Transcending little energy ➡️ ⬆️ BIG energy WARNING ⚠️ ‼️ …
“First Responders, we often hear“Change what we can” 📌Improve our diet📌Exercise📌Improve sleep hygiene for when we are off shift📌Incorporate mindfulness practices📌Prioritize rest and relaxation activities off shift This matters BUT What about the things we can’t change? Like… 📌Sleep deprivation on shift📌Repeated exposure to toxins and stressful scenes📌 Unpredictable meal times📌 Being away from family …
Cortisol This word often brings up negative connotations of stress and weight gain But cortisol is NOT bad In fact we cannot survive without it It’s part of a system that helped us to adapt and survive stress and still does But our stress is different now then primitive times We have a lot more …
It’s so tempting to believe it’s the goalthat is the dreambut actually it’s this 📷 From my office space
So now that we know Epi and Nor-Epi are the Nuero- hormones that play the main role in our Short term stress response Who joins the party when stress continues? CORTISOL 😀 🎉 ( gets no ❤️ but we couldn’t survive without it!) 🔹Fashionably late🔹The 2nd medic🔹2nd Due engine / water supply🔹Back up However you …
The Endocrine Systems role in Chronic Stress : 2nd Due Read More »
We are brilliantly designed to handle short term stress A threat is perceived, the body chemically communicates to adapt to it, once the threat is over we return to baseline But what happens when one perceived threats end is met by a new one? What happens when we don’t get that break to return to …
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