Category: Stress Management
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Massage for Your Brain
Not all massage and bodywork has the same effects and outcomes. “Speaking to Your Nervous System” breaks down how your safety brain moves you from a state of “rest and digest” to “fight or flight” based on perceived threats. Your nervous system will respond very differently to a rigorous sports massage compared to a gentle… Read more
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Speaking to Your Nervous System
In our post “Crack the Code of Stress and Thrive“, we explored the basics of stress and learned about the interplay between the “fight or flight” response, associated with the sympathetic nervous system, and the “rest and digest” response, linked to the parasympathetic nervous system. These opposing responses of your nervous system have distinct physiological… Read more
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Crack the Code of Stress and Thrive
Everyone has stress. It’s an unavoidable part of life that can actually be helpful in facing challenges and achieving goals. However, when the routine pressures of everyday life doesn’t give us time to recover before the next stressful event, stress can change from helpful to harmful. And it doesn’t take BIG stressors to cause a… Read more