Why Your Stress Cycle Gets Stuck and How to Break Free
How can I stop being stressed? Why can’t I finish the stress cycle? How can I release stress? Discover why your stress cycle gets stuck, the health risks of an unfinished stress cycle, and practical tips to break free and complete the stress cycle effectively. Part 1 of a 2-Part Series: Understanding the Stress Cycle and […]
Understand the Stress Cycle: When Does Stress Become a Problem?
Why am I stressed all the time? How can I manage my stress? Is stress making me ill? Stress is essential, but too much harms health. Understand the stress response, learn the stages of the stress cycle, discover how stalled stress cycle impacts health, and when stress has become THE problem. Part 1 of a […]
What is the Team Brain? How does the Team Brain control my actions? You may think you are in control of all you do – but it’s not the case. Whenever we live or work together in groups, a team brain is formed. This team brain is often more powerful than your individual brain in […]
What is social stress? Why do some people make me feel more stressed? Can teams ‘create’ stress together? Within our relationships we throw stress between us as if it was a hot potato. Discover the destructive co-created patterns that emerge under stress and how to change the dynamic to improve the atmosphere for everyone. Part […]
How Stress becomes Contagious: Our Social Nervous System Behaviours
Is stress contagious? How can I stop others making me stressed? How can I stop stress damaging my relationships? How should we react to stress? Discover the 10 clusters of relational styles we automatically adopt under threat, stress and pressure. Learn to recognise when your behaviour is being controlled by your social nervous system […]
How the Social Nervous System is Toxic for Well-being
What is the Social Nervous System? Why is it toxic for wellbeing? How can I overcome it? Our social nervous system is our ancient tribal survival system, enabling us to escape threat together. But it's efficiency at passing stress across a group means that today it has now become the greatest threat to our well-being. […]
From a Solo to a Social Understanding of Holistic Stress and Well-Being
Why are other people making me feel stressed? Can I ‘catch’ feeling stressed? Stress is often seen as something which we feel individually, but most of our stress is actually ‘social’. Stress and tension spreads contagiously and chronically through our relationship networks, therefore holistic psychological health and well-being requires integrating solo self-care practices with an […]