Holistic Therapy Tips: How To Feel More Joy + Happiness (Right Now & Today)

October 27, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips: How To Feel More Joy + Happiness (Right Now & Today)

Being authentically happier is possible even right now and today. It’s useful to first make the mental note “I could go for more happy vibes” and from there you can start to seek out more moments of joy. Sometimes you may find that others are kind enough to gift these moments of joy to you. But it’s a great idea to create your own moments of joy and happiness so that way you don’t have to wait for anyone. There’s a popular saying that I find to be completely true, “happiness is an inside job”. This means that we can always count on looking within instead of looking outside of ourselves for the things we need most emotionally. In the next few paragraphs, I’m going to share some of my favorite Holistic Therapy tools to feel more joy and happiness.

Choose to Laugh Everyday

Laughter is a medicine of sorts when we authentically laugh we feel happier and in a greater state of emotional ease. Laughter works by connecting us with something to focus on that not only makes us smile but also makes us verbalize our joy via laughing. When you laugh you also get the benefit of reduced stress. Your body physically reduces tension, you get more oxygen, your immunity is increased and you can even burn calories from daily laughter.

When we laugh we feel happier, it’s something we know in the moment as good but it’s also something we may not necessarily seek out on a regular basis. Try taking time at least 1-3x per day to create laughter with friends of alone to boost your personal sense of joy and happiness.

Locate Daily Awe-Worthy Inspiration

Life feels so very different when we cultivate and create a daily experience of accessing awe worth inspiration. I know every day can’t be equally awe inspired but if you reach for the stars as they say, you’ll land in the clouds. Creating a daily inspiration practice is great for making brain connections and cognition development. Imagine looking and finding inspiration daily so much so that you automatically look for it. This method create a great approach to seeking joy via inspiration of the good in the world, the beauty of a blooming rose, a smiling baby, a contagious laugh, a delicious meal, a amazing conversation with a loved one, or time tending your urban indoor garden.

No matter the items or experience you choose as a part of your daily inspiration routine, it should feel re-energizing and like a pleasant treat for you to enjoy. But you also get the bonus ripple effect of your mood likely being brighter which can extend into your important relationships and with the general public as well.

Connect/ Create With Your Hobbies Often

When we take time to connect or cultivate our hobbies we get to access a very unique and special experience called “Flow State”. Flow State is described as becoming completely immersed in the task where you achieve an “optimal state of consciousness” where you feel your best and can access best productivity and performance. When we connect and attend our hobbies we feel more happiness, more creative mindset, we’re learning to evolve from beginner, intermediate, and over to expert every time we engage. There’s a relationship happening that brings joy to us. I won’t lie, sometimes our hobbies can drive us up the wall when we experience set back but it’s a necessary part of the growth process and if we continue to hold space for hobbies, we gain an advantage of increased joy and happiness.

It may go without saying but just in case, it’s useful for your hobby to be something that can be done independently. When your hobby can be done independently you have more access and freedom to enjoy your developing relationship. You can also share hobbies with others but it’s great to save something that’s just for you as well.

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Holistic Therapy Tips For Increasing Your Energy Naturally & Fast

October 26, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips For Increasing Your Energy Naturally & Fast

It can be a tough time trying to have enough energy while also working with a busy daily schedule. When time flexibility decreases you may find you naturally also feel a lull or decrease of natural energy. When you have several responsibilities it can be difficult to maintain the energy and stamina that will be necessary to get “everything” done. Sometimes having a full schedule will intensify emotions of stress, which also can increase the likelihood of eating comfort food, carbs, or sweets. You may feel more mood swings, brain fog, difficulty with recall and memory. Not to worry I have some great Holistic Therapy Tips to help you increase your energy naturally and fast.

Drinking Nutritious Water

I admit the holistic tip for moderate- complete hydration is not necessarily a new concept for energy recovery or energy management but it’s still important. I recommend you drink half your body weight in ounces in order to get enough hydration daily. This water intake ratio does work best for people weighing less than 200 lbs. and if you are over 200 pounds consider speaking with your Primary Care provider to ensure that you receive medical guidance on proper water intake to match your bodyweight. For people weighing over 200 pounds there may be potential to over hydrate where drinking too much water can be considered harmful.

I also think it depends on the person as there are individuals who weigh less than 200 pounds who drink a gallon of water daily. Ultimately, it’s helpful to consider what works for your body and to assess with practice what will work for your unique mind and body energy response.

But wait, there’s more; it’s also great to consider adding a quarter teaspoon of sea salt to your water to increase your hydration absorption when drinking water. You can also consider drinking herbal teas to get an increase of Polyphenols, which can support cell oxidation and energy recovery.

Eat Energy Foods

Another opportunity for increasing your energy naturally and fast is to fuel up with healthy food options that can nourish your body and help you to feel robust energy. I recommend having green smoothies, salad, sweet potatoes, eggs, apples, coffee, green tea, almonds, oatmeal, and spinach. Also it helps to avoid foods that are processed, fried, simple carbohydrates, and foods with more than 5 grams of sugar per serving.

Walking Outside To Boost Mind Clarity

Getting fresh air and being in a state of moderate movement is a really great way to increase energy recovery. Your circulation increases from walking which extends to your ability to think more clearly and to improve recall and memory. In addition a change of scenery is a great to refocus energy. Try to give yourself at least 10 minutes of walking outside preferably in order to access a change of visual scenery and space for moving your body to increase your clarity of mind, reducing stress, and feeling physically more alert with energy recovery.

Deep Breathing Or Meditation Breaks

This one is my favorite, deep breathing and meditation breaks are a great way to recover your energy when you feel stressed or overwhelmed. Just try to slow your breathing to a count of 4 seconds for both when you inhale and exhale. Also consider pausing for a count of 4 seconds between your inhale or exhale. You will notice your racing thoughts slowing down with deep breathing or meditation practice. When you are able to slow your thoughts down you’ll naturally feel increased energy and refreshment.

You can consider doing small breaks of meditation throughout your day for a bigger advantage even an episode of just 2 minutes can help create big energy recovery results.

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Holistic Therapy Tips: What To Eat To Reduce Anxiety Symptoms

October 18, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Tips: What To Eat To Reduce Anxiety Symptoms

There’s a lot of conversation going on about how what “you are what you eat”; we’ve all heard that saying before. So yeah, we can understand; what we eat will play a role in how we feel on some level but what does this really mean?

If we eat healthy nutritious foods then we should feel healthy with more energy, have more strength, feel more stamina, and an overall sense of wellness. The other part of the story that doesn’t get as much conversation is the benefits of healthy nutrition implementation for your mental emotional health. It’s so important to consider what you eat as a potential tool to support mood management and emotional wellness as well.

In today’s article were going to look at how holistic nutrition can apply to mental emotional health and wellness in 3 key ways. First we’ll look at your basic rules for increasing general mental emotional health and wellness, then we’ll look more closely at supplements that support and help manage anxiety, then we’ll look at the behavioral support options that are also useful for creating a well-rounded holistic approach to anxiety management and anxiety reduction.

Eat Your Plants, Sprouts, Fruit, Fats, And Seeds

There’s definitely a standard blueprint or set of actions to take to reduce mood overwhelm or symptoms for depression, anxiety, and other mental health diagnosis and mood disorders. Let’s look at the basic rules of food and mood management.

Eat More Veggies: Aim to eat leafy green veggies daily. 4-5 cups is a great start. You can add spinach to smoothies, make sure to eat one salad per day or make soups with veggies as well.
Eat Less Fruit: Consider eating fruit daily as well with moderation of 1-2 servings (or pieces). Consider eating fruit with lower natural sugar content like pears, apples, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, lemon, lime, and avocado.
Eat Healthy Fats: Try coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, and fish oils. Try to eliminate use of vegetable oil and also eating foods with vegetable oil (canola oil, vegetable oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil, safflower oil, linseed oil, and rice bran oil) in the ingredient list.
Eat Sprouted Grains: Look for sprouted grains in the form of cereal, English muffins, bread, and tortillas. There’s also plenty of options for almond, oat, and coconut flour options. Avoid traditional bread and grain options as most have higher levels of sugars, gluten, carbs that ultimately cause higher patterns of glucose spiking, general sugar/ carb addiction.
Eat Spices: Adding spices to your foods have great medicinal value for your mood and emotional health. Eating spices like cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, onion powder, garlic powder, sea salt, black pepper, rosemary, oregano, and the list goes on all play a role in providing nutritional value for your health where your body also gains increased antioxidants.
Eat Nuts And Seeds: Reach for your nut butters over peanut butter to access lower sugar content. You’ll also feel increased satiation via having access to nut butters and seeds like hemp seed, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, sprouted seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, and sesame seeds.

What to Avoid Eating

Please reduce your simple carbohydrates (like white bread, white potatoes, chips etc.) and sugar intake (sweet foods made with high amounts of sugar over 5 grams per serving) because both sugars and carbohydrates cause a glucose spike in your body, which equates to your body feeling increased deregulation. This bodily deregulation also occurs for our mental emotional wellness.

Supplements That Help Reduce Anxiety

All right let’s look at anxiety supplements more specifically. Although anxiety is a disorder that has a great response to behavioral efforts for increased mindfulness, there are supplements that can help as well. All of the listed suggestions below are natural herbs or Adaptogens that have proven to be beneficial for anxiety maintenance.

Holy Basil Tea
Hemp Oil
CBD Oil
Lemon Balm Herb
Ashwagandha Herb
Kava Kava

It’s Your Mindfulness That Matters

I know this answer is not a favorite for clients experiencing anxiety but mindfulness and stimulus reduction does matter when it comes to anxiety. I want to encourage you to reduce screen time before bed and first thing in the morning. Carve out time for self-care and meditation if you want to see reduction of your anxiety symptoms. There are tons of free guided-meditations that are available if you feel like independent meditation is difficult or distractible.

Ultimately all of the suggestions combined will work best with implemented together but even starting with just one small effort can be just as useful for your holistic therapy approach to anxiety management through your nutrition practice.

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Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How to Use CBD And Hemp Oil For Anxiety and Stress Management

October 15, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How to Use CBD And Hemp Oil For Anxiety and Stress Management

Hemp oil and CBD both have a long-standing record of effective outcomes for anti-anxiety management and anxiety reduction. Hemp Oil and CBD closely related as hemp oil and CBD oil is harvested from the same flower; Hemp flowers. Neither use of CBD or Hemp Oil will cause you to feel high or mentally altered. CBD and Hemp Oil are both known to increase relaxation, increase pain relief, and reducing inflammation.

We’re in a collective season at this time where stress and anxiety are more consistent and daily occurrences. We feel anxious about getting “it all done” managing our personal lives, personal responsibilities, the larger state of the world and the unknown.

It’s reasonable and important to look for different ways to create healthy coping practices and to consider functional supplementation for mood and mind support. Yes we are capable of treating anxiety and stress without hemp oil or supplementation potentially, but sometime dynamic approach will get the job done much faster. Dynamic approach is using coping tools to change behaviors that may increase anxiety or stress reaction while also considering healthy functional supplementation with food and movement to help support your mind and body to heal and recover at a faster or increased impact.

What is Hemp Oil/ CBD Oil?

Both Hemp Oil and CBD Oils are derived from the Hemp Plant/ Hemp Flower. The hemp Flower or Hemp Plant also seems to be referred to as the Cannabis Plant. Hemp is used in many ways; natural medicine, lotions, soaps, salves, food, clothing, building materials. The extraction method for Hemp Oil and CBD Oil Phytocannabinoids do not allow for THC (psychoactive) properties to be harvested collectively. CBD Oil is also harvested from the Hemp Plant and has similar benefits of hemp as it is used as medicine, infused into lotions, soaps, salves, and foods. CBD oils may also be combined with THC in order to support therapeutic relaxation, pain relief, and appetite stimulus for cancer patients and recreational use in states where THC use is legal.

How Does Hemp Oil Supplementation Work

Taking CBD or Hemp Oil is very easy and similar in method. Both CBD and Hemp Oil come in tincture form where you can take a serving of the oil after sharing the contents of the bottle. Place the CBD Oil or Hemp Oil under your tongue and hold or swish the oil under your tongue for 60-90 seconds. You can take more than 1 dose per day if you’d like however it’s ideal that you begin with the recommended dosage. If you feel minimal results after at least 14 days of consistent use consider increasing your dose to a higher amount.

Hemp Oil is also notable for it’s nutritional content of omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin e, protein, carotene, Vitamin A, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorophyll, Sulfur, and small amounts of zinc and iron.

Hemp Oil Extended Benefits List

Not only does Hemp Oil and CBD Oil aid in anxiety support and pain management and reducing muscle tension and stress. Hemp Oil and CBD Oil also have extended benefits beyond anxiety and stress. Check out the list below to see the full range of what hemp supplementation can help with.

Reduce Inflammation
Lower Blood Cholesterol Levels
Lower Blood Pressure
Improve cardiovascular function
Improve organ function
Treat and Reduce Dry Skin and Hair Conditions
Reduce PMS Symptoms and Pain
Improved muscle recovery post workout recovery
Increase energy levels

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Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How To Use Aromatherapy For Anxiety and Stress Management

October 14, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How To Use Aromatherapy For Anxiety and Stress Management

Aromatherapy is an amazing tool to treat anxiety, restlessness, and stress. The art of aromatherapy has been acknowledged to go back to times of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. The benefits of aromatherapy are also present in today’s time. Over the years aromatherapy has come to be included in some medical settings as a treatment and recovery method for substance addiction recovery, post surgery recovery, and patient rehabilitation. Aromatherapy is now being integrated into more hospital settings as a treatment to support patient health.

The benefits extend in your personal use at home or while traveling as well. There’s now essential oil based car fresheners and diffusers, essential oil travel blends that can be work as perfume/ cologne. Now you can find aromatherapy necklaces, watches, and bracelets for essential oil diffusing that can be worn as multi functional jewelry. My favorite way to diffuse aromatherapy essential oils is to use a traditional diffuser with essential oils that are meant to target and treat stress and anxiety relief.

What is Aromatherapy?

In the simplest of terms aromatherapy is described as the practice of using scents to alter and or improve mood and emotional wellness. What is important to remember when it comes to aromatherapy it’s very important to utilize therapeutic grade essential oils instead of chemically enhanced fragrance oils. When you utilize essential oils that are clean and free of synthetic fragrance and chemicals you are ensuring your wellness outcomes to be increased and more effective without side effects that may present from synthetic fragrances, which can be harmful. It’s worth noting that essential oils also require attention to detail for use, there is potential to have too much of a good thing if you don’t consider the appropriate amount of aromatherapy. An example would be to use 10 drops of your essential oil with 1 cup of water vs. using 50 drops of essential oil with ½ cup of water. How you measure your aromatherapy treatment is important for your health and mood treatment.

How Does Aromatherapy Work

Aromatherapy is a simple process where you diffuse therapeutic essential oils through a carrier mechanism. I have mentioned aromatherapy necklaces, bracelets, car diffusers, and home and office diffusers. You can also add essential oils to your shower routine or when taking a relaxing bath. There are additional methods for aromatherapy for linen sprays, candles, body lotions, and hair products, even deodorants.

When you apply your aromatherapy ideally you are using a therapeutic ratio for the method you select. From there the essential oil should be within range of your sense of smell for better effect. The essential oil fragrance then activates your smell receptors, which send information to your limbic system. Your limbic system is responsible for mood, emotional awareness, physical and mental emotional reactivity. Within 20 minutes you may find the benefits of the essential oils to increase with noticeable improvement of your mood.

Best Aromatherapy Methods When You Feel Anxious

When you feel anxious it’s helpful and quite valuable to work with essential oils that are specifically beneficial for stress and anxiety to encourage direct symptom relief. The list of essential oils vary but consistent result for anxiety and stress have been confirmed for:

Lavender Essential Oil

Chamomile Essential Oil

Valerian Essential Oil

Jasmine Essential Oil

Holy Basil Essential Oil

Ylang Ylang Essential Oil

Frankincense Essential Oil

Lemon Balm Essential Oil

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Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How To Use An Acupressure Mat And Pillow + More Benefits

October 12, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Holistic Therapy Anxiety Treatment: How To Use An Acupressure Mat And Pillow + More Benefits

Anxiety can be immobilizing and distracting so much that it’s hard to think with clarity or any sense of direction. When we feel anxious, it’s a great reminder that we need to be able to access different tools to slow our racing mind down to return to a healthy state. Acupressure therapy is a great tool to treat anxiety holistically. It’s a simple and self governed process of simply getting your acupressure mat and pillow, then spending time lying on your mat and pillow to receive the therapeutic benefits, then storing your mat and pillow to returning to your day with improved refreshment.

What is Acupressure?

Acupressure is an ancient form of massage practiced in Chinese Medicine. The goal of acupressure massage has been to increase and encourage balanced flow of Qi (energy) through the meridian channels of the body.

In current history acupressure mats and pillows have also been created and utilized for the same purpose and practice. Now acupressure therapy can be achieved by lying on an acupressure mat and pillow minus the masseuse, which is helpful with everyone currently spending more time at home to prevent and reduce COVID risks.

Acupressure mats can be found online at holistic health stores and amazon.com. Some people will simply buy the acupressure mat without the pillow. I personally find the pillow and the mat combined to be most beneficial for therapeutic response for anxiety and stress management.

How Does Using An Acupressure Mat Feel?

Using an acupressure mat does take a little time to acclimate to as the pillow and the mat is covered in small plastic “needle like” points. When you lay on the mat it’s ideal to move slowly and gently while wearing as little layers between your skin and the mat for maximum application.

Once you find a comfortable position on the mat it’s ideal to stay in a resting position on the acupressure mat and pillow for 10-20 minutes for best anxiety and stress relief. Usually within the first 5 minutes of your acupressure session, you will feel an endorphin release of calm and soothing energy. This feeling is often maintained throughout the remaining time in your acupressure session.

How to Use Acupressure When Anxious Or Stressed

When you’re feeling anxious or stressed, using an acupressure mat can be helpful to calm yourself effectively. It may be harder to think clearly when anxious but planning ahead helps. Anxiety is an emotional experience that happens more than once and ideally you may even know the times and locations that your anxiety or stress may peak.

If you find yourself anxious at home, consider keeping your mat in a space where you can practice for example your bedroom may be ideal or near the living room couch. If you are working in an office space, consider keeping your acupressure mat at your desk or in your car to be used during your break. If you happen to have an office with a quiet room, consider using your acupressure mat while in the quiet room space.

Additional Benefits of Acupressure

We talked about the benefits of using an acupressure mat and pillow for anxiety and stress management and there’s a extended list of additional benefits you will gain from using acupressure therapy. Some additional benefits from using acupressure therapy include increased pain management, reduced neck and pack pain, reduced insomnia symptoms, fibromyalgia pain, and headache reduction.

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Holistic Therapy For Seasonal Affective Disorder: How To Stay Emotionally Resilient

October 6, 2020 Brandi Jackson

Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year. In many places the weather is becoming cooler, the holidays are coming, the time of daylight hours will be shifting, the foods we eat are even within a transition. There’s a lot changes that come into play for most during the fall and winter months.

What About Your Mood?

Your mood is often more vulnerable during the fall and winter as the transition of time, season, daylight, sleep, holidays, and interpersonal relationship is all called into transition for most people. Your mood is likely to have more highs and lows with a great season of transition. We also must consider the current and real experience of COVID 19, Quarantine, Home Schooling, Election Season, and how that also impacts this fall and winter.

This is a big thought and question to ponder? How can you best stay healthy and safe? How can you thrive through this winter and minimize/ prevent your risk of Seasonal Affective Disorder?

What Is Seasonal Affective Disorder?

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of Depression that is related to change of season and daylight, which effects mood and energy. You may find that you generally feel higher levels of depression and sadness during the window of SAD. The window where seasonal Affective Disorder is most prominent is during the months of November and ongoing through February depending on the person, stressors sleep patterns, nutrition patterns, and available support network.

Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms

Seasonal Affective Disorder has a distinct set of symptoms that usually overlap with Depression symptoms as well. Some of the symptoms that may be easier to self-monitor are listed below.

Increased experience of low energy and feeling tired often
Low interest to do the activities you previously enjoyed
Social Isolation and avoidance
Irritable mood and emotional sensitivity
Feeling hopeless or guilty
Difficulty concentrating
Low sex drive
Brain fog

Holistic Therapies For Seasonal Affective Disorder

Light Therapy: Seasonal Affective Disorder has been treated with light therapy in 2 primary ways, the first way is to open the blinds to allow natural light exposure to occur daily for natural vitamin D support which correlates back to mood management. You can also find light therapy lamps for daily light therapy practice indoors while at home or at your workspace.

Vitamin D Supplementation: Also taking Vitamin D in supplement form can be very helpful for maintaining a certain amount of vitamin D in your blood system as a baseline through the winter months. This helps maintain a preventative approach to keeping your vitamin D established at a certain level during the fall and winter season.

Exercise: Try to keep your fitness practice in good shape. Consider going for daily wellness walks, doing daily yoga or indoor cardio. Your body will naturally produce cortisol, serotonin, and additional endorphins that will naturally support your mood management and potentially prevent SAD or reduce impact of Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Support Circle: Reach out to friends, family during, and your natural supports during the SAD Season as much as feels appropriate for you to feel that your practicing healthy and supportive social interactions. Isolation is vulnerability when it comes to likely increase of depression symptoms. Humans are social creatures and without enough social interactions there is a posed risk for your sense of wellness.

Self Care: Having a winter self care practice is priceless! Be sure to look forward to updating your self-care routine as the seasons change and your routine is likely to change. You want to keep your self care practice as relevant to your present needs versus doing what may have been practical for the previous season.

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Sleep Hygiene: How to Stop Stress and Anxiety Insomnia

October 5, 2020 Taylor Hornbeck

Your sleep affects so many aspects of your life so it’s essential to ensure you’re always getting the best sleep possible. If you aren’t getting good sleep you may be experiencing low moods, your stress levels may increase and you may be eating more for comfort than substance. Lack of sleep can also increase your risk of health concerns like diabetes, stroke and heart disease. Stress and anxiety can cause insomnia. This type of insomnia can usually be helped without the need for medication by focusing on proper sleep hygiene.

Holistic Bedtime Routine

A great place to start is to assess what you are doing before bed that could be causing anxiety and stress and preventing you from getting good sleep. You’ll want to take a look at the four hours before you get into bed and determine if those activities are activating or deactivating you. You may want to implement a decompression plan that you can do everyday before going to sleep. Some of the things that will help you decompress would be no screen time, light eating, maybe making a tea, listening to something calming or reading.

Holistic + Mindful Insomnia Hygiene

If you are someone who wakes up and has trouble falling asleep you will want to have a before bed routine and an insomnia hygiene routine. The first thing you will want to check in your insomnia routine is if you have any stimulating things like a tv on, the lights on, your phone next to you, etc. If you don’t think you will be able to go back to sleep quickly I encourage you to get up, go to a quiet place in your home, keep the lights dim and stay away from any screen time. A great practice at this time would be to get out your journal and jot down anything that’s on your mind. Sometimes when you have had an emotionally draining day or you are working through a challenging time, getting these thoughts and emotions out on paper can be a great release and it allows our minds to relax. Once you’ve gotten your thoughts out it's a great time to relax by meditating. One of my personal tried and true favorites is using an acupressure pillow. On nights that I have too much on my mind and wake up I use my pillow for about ten to twenty minutes and I’m good after that.

Supporting Holistic Supplements

You may want to consider supplements at bedtime as well. Melatonin is a great option for sleep. It’s an all natural product that helps the body produce sleep inducing hormones. Tryptophan is another supplement that you could try. It’s a naturally occurring chemical that makes our body chemistry tired.

The Consistency Factor: Stick With It

It typically takes two to four weeks for your sleep cycle to shift but you need to determine if you want to be consistent with your sleep routine and what is going to work best for your lifestyle. For those hot summer months when you’re having trouble falling asleep try my summer sleep tips and tricks. This article was a brief introduction on what I cover in my Fit Mind & Body Program. If you want to dive deeper into your health and wellness then click the link below and let's get started!

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Natural Methods To Consider Before Seeing A Psychiatrist: Holistic Mental Health

September 2, 2020 Taylor Hornbeck

Why should you consider natural methods before medication? There are many factors that can affect our bodies and moods and they should be evaluated before you seek out medication to manage symptoms. Prescribed medication certainly has its place however it may not be helpful for every diagnosis. There can be side effects from medication as well as issues with not being able to access your full range of emotion. In my experience a lot of my clients have stated that they would prefer not to use medication and explore natural methods. Read on to find out what things to rule out when establishing if you have a mental health diagnosis that requires medication management.

Visit your primary care provider

This should be your first step to ensure that there are no physical health issues that could be affecting your mental health. When you visit your health care provider you can state that you would like to test numerous things in order to rule out any potential health problems. The first test that you can request would be a thyroid function test. An improper functioning thyroid is likely to produce symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. Another area of testing that should be considered is your vitamin and protein deficiency. If your body is not able to properly absorb necessary nutrients then you will display symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, moodiness etc. You should explore what foods you are consuming as well and make sure you are eating a healthy and balanced diet. The final area of testing that you should inquire about is adrenal fatigue. There is a specific blood test that enables doctors to test your adrenal fatigue levels which would help narrow down a treatment plan.

Sleep

If you aren’t getting enough sleep your brain is not able to recover or respond well to day to day activities. Pay attention to your body and honor your unique sleeping patterns. Lack of sleep can cause the body to mimic symptoms of a mental health diagnosis. Explore sleep hygiene options that work best with your schedule and body type. Strive to be consistent with your sleep schedule as this will help you better determine if you have health concerns or if you just need to prioritize your sleep more.

Situational Anxiety/Depression

Before establishing if you have a mental health diagnosis you should first take a look at your current life situation and see if there is anything that could be provoking symptoms. Are you currently stressed out because you’re moving, changing jobs, homeschooling your kids, adjusting to quarantine etc? Then you can decide to bring in support either from family and friends or an outside source to help you manage your current situation. That may look like delegating tasks to them to relieve some pressure off of yourself or asking for help in a way that would be beneficial to you.

Active Coping

In my experience when my clients practice routine coping they are better able to manage their symptoms. My recommendation would be to use a three a day approach. Choose whatever coping mechanism works best for you that may be walking, doing yoga, meditating or another tool and do that three times per day for at least ten minutes each.

To wrap this up, you shouldn’t feel a stigma around taking medications to manage your mental health there are times where medications are needed and necessary however going through everything I have outlined above will allow you to determine if medications are something you need in your current state.

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How To: Breakup With Anxiety and Depression in 7 Days! Anxiety and Depression Breakup Plan Workshop 7 Day Program

July 8, 2017 Brandi Jackson

Hi, Beautiful Wellnista!

How are you doing? No. Really. How are you?

I hope you are doing amazing, feeling amazing and living your "feel your best life truth". But if you have been having a time with anxiety, stress, depression, FOMO (fear of missing out), or feeling just plain burnt all the way out, I have something special to share with you.

How to Breakup With Your Anxiety and Depression in 7 Days?

I am a practiced clinician with a decade of experience helping people reach change and transformation, many of the folks I work with experience real anxiety and depression. I also have my own experience with anxiety and depression. Over the last 15 years and counting, I have mapped my own road to long term recovery. I want to share the top 10 methods that I have found scientifically impactful for changing the human relationship to anxiety and depression.

This workshop and workbook materials are completely free and available online. To learn more about the course to see if it's a match for you please read below!

Are you currently struggling with:

Constant Distraction
Uncontrollable Roller Coaster Mood Swings
Constant Overwhelm
Limited Focus/ Difficulty Concentrating
Increased Stress/ Exhausting Life Demands
Limited Free Time
Depression
Anxiety

If so, the Anxiety and Depression Breakup Plan (7 Day Plan) is a match for you! The workshop was designed to:

Improve Mood
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Improve Communication
Provide a Custom Plan to Manage Anxiety + Depression

This course if for women who are motivated to live beyond anxiety and depression. It's time to get in charge and be vibrant!

Are you ready to increase the amount of freedom, confidence and vibrancy you feel in your day?

So, let me tell you just a few more items that come with this juicy and FREE Anxiety and Depression Breakup Plan Workshop 7 Day Program.

When you Join the Anxiety and Depression Break Up 7 Day Program:

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The Top 10 Methods you can practice daily to get in charge of your Anxiety & Depression
A Simple but Powerful Anxiety and Depression Daily Workbook
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A "before and after" Journal for your 7 days of practice
Daily emails for mood support and encouragement
A Graduation celebration letter and surprise gift on Day 7.

The AD Breakup frequently asked questions are also available for any questions or navigation support you may need. Just click the AD Breakup Registration button located above to see if your question is posted in the AD Breakup FAQ's List.

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