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Podcast: Alive & Well – Nervous System, Productivity, Time Management, Somatic Tools, Work-Life Balance, Burnout, Anxiety
Episode: 216 - 5 Signs You're in Fight or Flight (Even if You're Not Feeling Angry or Anxious)
Description: Managing stress is a part of life, right? Especially as a mom, it can feel like if it’s not one thing, it’s another. But here’s the thing about stress - our body is designed to experience stress as a cycle with a beginning and an end. We perceive a stressor -> our body has a physiological response -> we go into fight-or-flight -> the stressor resolves & we’re safe -> we return to regulation. But what happens when we’re living in a state of chronic stress? We can get stuck in fight...