It’s official – finding your more is good for your health.

Having gone through burnout myself, I feel like I’ve become a bit of a broken record on this. Now my message is backed up by an expert as I talk to nutritional therapist Clare Backhouse about what stress does to the body and why we need to apply the brakes long before burnout takes hold.

This episode gets down to the nitty-gritty of why it’s important – right down to how overwork and misalignment can affect your body’s hormonal balance, digestive health and even bone density.

We all know that living with stress isn’t a good idea but what defines too much stress, when does it become harmful, what are the symptoms and what can we do about it? A few things we dip into:

• 13.7 million working days a year are lost to stress, anxiety and depression – so we need to shift our thinking on health and wellbeing in relation to work.

• Clare shares what she learned from her own story when she willingly disappeared down the wrong career rabbit hole until her body told her it was time to stop and reconsider.

• Our bodies are designed for healing and their natural inclination is to protect us. Sometimes these systems over or under operate when they’re overloaded with little relief.

• How cortisol dysregulation can rob us of our sleep, sending us into an exhausting downward spiral that’s difficult to escape.

• Why we refuse to stop, the pressures we have on us to keep going and how our culture feeds our strange addiction to stress.

• The impact that external forces have on our ability to cope and the importance of understanding that everyone is different.

• How more isn’t always more. Letting a few balls drop could be uncomfortable in the short term but our long-term health will thank us for it.

Don’t wait, don’t put it off. Create an air of urgency - do it now.

Clare ends by saying that instead of talking in terms of holding back the tide, we should be turning from the shore and running to find peace in the mountains. I really like this.

Find Clare’s website with more tips and info here: https://www.transformationnutrition.org/

And regular updates here: https://www.instagram.com/transformationnutritionuk/

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