Stress & Overwhelm

Stress is your best friend.

Or at least it wants to be. It’s your body’s way of communicating something is wrong, and you need to attend to it.

We have all been conditioned to accept stress as a part of normal life. So, we keep on keeping on, hoping things will get better.

We may suppress the symptoms of stress with medications, food, alcohol, or other unhealthy practices.

We ignore it as it tries valiantly to get our attention – to warn us that the path we are on is dangerous to our health and well-being. We ignore or Band-Aid the symptoms, so we can keep moving forward.

Eventually though, stress will get our attention one way or another.

How does stress show up for you?

For Type-A Personalities, stress often shows up as racing or repetitive thoughts and worries.

Stress can make it difficult to focus on a task or concentrate on complex subjects. We may find we are having difficulty making simple decisions or remembering little things.

Consequences of stress are not just mental.

Stress speaks through the language of the body, too. It creates muscle tension, changes breathing patterns, interferes with digestion and sleeping patterns, disrupts the endocrine (hormone) system, and suppresses the function of the immune system, which sets us up for more illness and dysfunction.

If we ignore stress long enough, it can create such significant imbalances in our health that we develop heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and many other life-threatening conditions.

Stress is your body’s alarm system and requires a healthy solution.

It’s letting you know that things are out of balance and out of alignment.

There are two healthy ways to address stress.

First, it is getting help from a trained professional who can help you rebalance your central nervous system.

Second, it is learning strategies and techniques that you can implement every day to calm and rebalance your central nervous system

Manual therapy helps relieve stress.

Light touch therapy, also called CranioSacral Therapy (CST), is an excellent way to reduce stress by helping the body rebalance itself and reduce the stress response.

CST is a gentle approach that releases tensions in the Central Nervous System to allow the body to relax and self-correct.

Contact me to schedule your complimentary consultation to find out more about how manual therapy may be able to help you.