HH530: Manage Stress Effectively!
Today, I want to talk to you about managing stress effectively. Stress is literally a part of life, however, when it becomes chronic, it can wreak havoc on our body.
About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her on children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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Transcript
Welcome back to another episode of health hacks as I continue my series on 12 easy hacks to better health. And today, I want to talk to you about managing stress effectively. Stress is literally a part of life. However, when it becomes chronic, it can wreak havoc on our body. It literally weakens our immune system, our gut health, it disrupts sleep, and you know all of that already. However, what happens is we look around and we see everyone else is stressed out, and we think it's normal, and we shouldn't be normalizing it. What we really need to do is take back our power, take back our control, to manage our stress in ways that support our health and well being, and so that we can show up and offer the world the best of us every single day. And that's part of a mantra that I created when I realized that self care was the most important thing that we can do, and I had previously been programmed to believe that it was selfish, and it isn't because we can't serve from an empty cup. We have to look after ourselves first. And so that entire mantra is that self care is the most selfless act as it allows you to show up and give the world the best of you instead of what's left of you. And so how do we do that? We program time for ourselves into our calendar that no one else can take away. You know, I program morning time into my calendar. I put my lunch break into my calendar. I put my ski time into my calendar. I have, you know, friends laugh at me because I'm booking my ski dates with my girlfriends in August of the year prior to make sure that no one else can take that time away from me. And there's also very simple steps that you can take to lower your stress in the moment. One of those is practicing deep breathing. I often talk about the 557, technique, and if you go back and check out health Hack number 18 on my YouTube channel, you will I guide you through exactly how to do that, spending time in nature or simply engaging in activities that bring you joy, whether that be adult coloring books, reading a book, curled up in front of a fire, having a bath. What is it that brings you joy going for a walk, as well as making sure that you set boundaries and learn to say no in order to protect your energy. Because every time you say no to someone else, you're saying yes to you, usually what we want to do is we want to say yes to other people, and that's when we say no to ourselves. And if we say yes too often, we become overwhelmed, and so setting those boundaries is really important. And as I mentioned, putting things in your calendar, using your calendar is a form of a boundary, because it's protecting that time for you, and then you have the choice of what you want to do with that time, and if you need to shift it around in your day. Sometimes I do that if something comes up during the time that I've protected that I want to do, I'll move the time however. It gives me the choice that time just doesn't get taken away by somebody else. It gives me the choice, do I really want to do that? And if you want to learn how to set boundaries in a really powerful way, leaving all emotion to the side, we teach this in our amplify your mind master class, and I'll drop the link to that in the chat. It's a two day master class. We teach much more than just how to set boundaries. It's a fabulous class where you get to tap into the power of your unconscious mind and learn some of these tools. You get to experience a couple of a couple of hypnotic inductions and learn strategic thinking and decision making and boundary setting and much more. So if that's of interest, the link for that class is in the show notes. And I just want to leave you with the notion that chronic stress is not normal. It is negatively impacting your health in ways that you can't even begin to imagine in terms of the effect that it will have 10 to 20 years down the line, and what you do today to manage your stress matters, and these small steps that I've given you are things that you can easily implement in order to lower the load of stress on your body and enjoy them, have fun with it.
