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The connection between anxiety and depression isn't coincidental. A dysregulated amygdala sustains our body's stress response, leading to a more negative outlook, and maladaptive coping strategies like addiction, catastrophizing, hypervigilance, dissociation, fawning and self-betrayal as our brain prioritizes immediate safety over long-term well-being.

For entrepreneurs and business leaders, this is particularly relevant. The constant pressure to perform and succeed can keep this cycle going, affecting not only your mental health but also your physical wellness and business decisions.

While science catches up to holistic understandings of wellness, one exciting advancement is the field of epigenetics. Epigenetics studies how environmental factors and life experiences can affect gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence.

Many of us are tired. Emotionally and physically drained. And with the pressure of societal expectations and generational trauma, we learn to be hard on ourselves, which exacerbates our situation, and then hard on our young people who are also tired, or who don’t see why we must to push through our tiredness. Unrelenting stress on our nervous system may lead to depression...

So what are our chronic health issues calling us to let go of, to change? And who would you become after making these changes? What I know is the body needs support – it needs energy, nutrients and new perspectives to overcome these strategic healing crises that have built up over time that can no longer be ignored...

Up until the Coronavirus pandemic, the predominant culture has been one of maximizing productivity for profit, or for survival for most. Our mainstream society has been set up to burn, not only through the earth's resources, but through each individual's personal reserves, at a destructive nonrenewable rate.

We could feel blissful, even unstoppable, after a powerful energy work session, or we could feel like we are detoxing and just want to sleep! A physical surfacing of toxins may feel like sinus, skin or intestinal clearing. Energy blocks are low vibrational, less coherent, disharmonious energies/toxins which keep the body in a chronic fight-or-flight adaptive inflammatory response.

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