One HUGE mistake I made in corporate…

I treated my body as a machine, as if it was meant to live on 5 hours of sleep for months at a time. I acted like those deals and closings were more important than my health.  

Others outside of the legal field tried to warn me about burnout but I wore it like a badge of honor. (Anyone know what I am talking about?) 

I lived in a busy city, worked a stressful corporate job, scoffed at the waste-of-time shavasana and gradually and methodically destroyed my health and body through burnout. 

I had no idea that the stress, the overstimulation of a city, living on caffeine and going through an afternoon sugar crash had an enormous negative impact on my nervous system. 

It took going to a collaborative grad school, slowing down, learning about the nervous system and eventually moving outside of the city to help me heal and create a joyful, peaceful, purposeful life. 

It turns out that… 

a calm nervous system is the foundation of:

👉emotional regulation (responding thoughtfully rather than reacting impulsively)

👉changing limiting beliefs that hold you back (gaining confidence and self-worth as a result)

👉not reacting to the world where you feel like everyone is trying to hurt you 

👉shifting your identity to get out of overwhelm and stress (e.g., seeing yourself as a healthy person who meditates)

You can get out of survival mode and calm down your hyper-functioning  nervous system with these 5 simple habits:

1️⃣ spending time in nature

2️⃣ petting animals 

3️⃣ body practices: yoga, breath work 

4️⃣ mind practices: meditation, guided visualization, journaling  

5️⃣ gentle exercise, walking, swimming, kayaking