Welcome to my blog on the topic of nutrition: you will find personal anecdotes, stories from my own journey to health, and posts about anxiety, fatigue, stress and burnout - how to identify them and how to move through them!
4 ways studying nutrition changed my life as a burnt out self employed yoga teacher
This is what I changed immediately to manage and prevent burnout when I started learning about the power of food, alongside my regular yoga practice and crazy self employed schedule
If I wanted to beat afternoon energy slumps in the next 30 days, here's where I would start
You’re at work, and after lunch you feel ok, but then around 2-4pm you could literally put your head down on your desk and fall asleep.
You are just staring at your computer trying to find a way through the brain fog and get some work done but your focus and clarity are completely gone right now.
You snack on sugar and replenish your caffeine supply just to find a bit more brain energy to be able to make it until the end of the day
This sounds like an afternoon energy crash.
✧ This doesn’t have to happen, and it doesn’t have to be your normal ✧
How I squashed my anxiety in one month
While I was trying to manage going to school, never-ending assignments, tests and papers, with being self-employed I was extremely stressed out and anxious and I even experienced panic attacks. I couldn’t sleep properly and generally felt like everything was awful and would never end. Read to find out what I did to manage this tough time in a natural way.
Anxiety lowering hacks: my 7 steps to reducing anxiety
Read on for some of my best tips for managing anxiety + claim your free anxiety management pdf at the end!
Are you stuck in a pattern of feeling like you have no time to take care of yourself? The signs of chronic stress you want to watch out for and what you can do right now to prevent it
Do you feeling like your work is consuming you? Like you are stressed all the time and taking your work home with you to lay in bed still worrying about it and can’t sleep?
This turns into feeling tired the next day and experiencing brain fog, then being easily triggered by all the never ending tasks you have to do and the tasks keep piling up?
Do you also have low mood and feel like you are not enjoying life right now?
Are you struggling to see a way any of this can even change?
Sounds like you might be living in a chronic stress response.
When I stopped making these mistakes with my morning routine I started to easily feel more energetic & alert throughout the entire day
If you feel exhausted by mid afternoon or experience brain fog generally throughout the day, there is a lot you can do about it with small tweaks to your eating habits and your routine.
My advice is to start looking at your morning routine first, what can you change here to set you up for stable energy throughout the day?
I found the way to heal my relationship with food, to overcome my strange eating habits & beliefs that I rationalised to be normal & healthy and I will not be looking back.
Read on to discover how my eating habits & understanding of nutrition have changed over the course of my life, with all of my education and practical experience learned over the last 2 decades. Can you relate?