Time to read: Short and immediately actionable
Eat your vegetables!
One of my coaching groups was talking about stress this morning. As the group outlined the strategies they use to manage stress and regulate mood, our 90-minute call sent us right back to the basics.
It's so easy to forget that managing stress is fundamentally a physical exercise. Meaning, it's about your body and soothing your nervous system. The list of strategies we created was so good, I wanted to share them with you.
You won't be surprised. You will be reminded of what's actually effective to manage stress:
- Exercise (move your body!)
- A healthy diet (eat your veggies!)
- Sleep (rest and recover!)
- Meditation (so soothing for the nervous system!)
- Focus on process over outcome (become unattached!)
- Know what is yours to own and what is not (discern and let things go!)
It's that simple. Move your body and eat vegetables. Oh, and sleep. Doesn't it seem like these are the answers to everything?
Have a great time playing with these this weekend!
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