by Feeling Great | May 1, 2017 | Body, Mind
Sitting down with clients each day I ask them, ‘what they would love to change?’
I often hear – “I want more energy”, “I want to lose weight”, “I want to feel good”…
It got me thinking, feeling good what does it really mean?
Is it the same for everybody? Or do we all have our own definition of feeling good?
What’s yours? (Love a comment below)
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by Feeling Great | Apr 25, 2017 | Body
I get amazed most days at how many people are scraping by from debilitating exhaustion, wired on caffeine, sugary foods, nicotine and anything else that keeps them upright.
It’s estimated that on going fatigue affects more than 1.5 million people in Australia, and adrenal fatigue happens in a high proportion of these people.
Your adrenal glands sit on top of your kidneys and secrete cortisol that is ideally meant to be high in the morning and reduce over the day for a restful sleep at night. Cortisol helps to regulate your blood pressure and sugar. Not having too much or too little is crucial for feeling great.
If you have an adrenal problem, you may:
- Crave sugary or salty food
- Struggle to get started in morning
- Crash in the afternoon
- Libido almost non-existent
- Wake often during the night to urinate
- Get shaky or can’t think if don’t eat regularly
- Find it hard to lose weight
- Have a second wind in the evening
- Feel moody
- Aches and pains
To find out where you are on the adrenal fatigue scale you can do salivary testing to find out what your cortisol levels are over 24 hours – high, low, flat-lined. This enables you to get tailored remedies specific to where you are. CLICK HERE to book Adrenal Discovery Session today to get yours done. It’s the first step to getting well again.
Methylation parameters, namely MTHFR can also have a huge impact on how your health stands up under stress, by affecting clearance of wastes, hormones and maintaining health of your gut, brain and much more. Is it time to get yours tested? CLICK HERE to book Adrenal Discovery Session to get yours done today.
Dealing with any underlying issues, such as food intolerances, leaky gut, candida overgrowth and SIBO can also be crucial to recovery from adrenal fatigue. CLICK HERE to book Adrenal Discovery Session to find out.
Want to get on track to resetting your adrenals?
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by Feeling Great | Apr 17, 2017 | Body
Ever caught yourself thinking, Wow, I feel burnt out! I think most of us have been there. What does it mean and how did it happen?
Recently, I treated a young working mum that was the poster child of true burnout. She was early 30’s, just had her first child, worked in the emergency services and held herself to high standards with no excuses.
She came to me for weight she couldn’t shift and zero sex drive. She had started letting certain things go over the past year because she just couldn’t keep all the balls in the air, one of them had been intimacy with her partner.
Despite her usual rigorous weights and exercise program her muscle mass was dropping and she was stacking on weight around the middle. Even after restricting her carbs things weren’t getting any better.
She was up for promotion and her brain was foggy, her blood sugar dropped dramatically if she didn’t eat regularly and her strength waned. She felt knocked out when she went to bed, but still woke up with limited reserves.
She regularly needed a caffeine hit to keep her energy on, felt a big slump mid afternoon. At night she got by with hubby cooking and taking care of the kids. There was no thought of any more kids she was at her limit.
This a one presentation of classic adrenal fatigue. They can be varied in their severity.
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by Feeling Great | Apr 17, 2017 | Mind
Today I was inspired to write on anxiety, struggle and overwhelm. A common theme that wafted through my clinic and life over the last few weeks.
Typically the stories vary from…
- Beautiful young women losing their confidence to be themselves in the world, rather focusing on what they’re not than what is. Gripped by feelings of just not being enough, feeling judged and unlovable?
- Being medicated with antidepressants, yet still being depressed.
- Relationships and marriages disintegrating and the turmoil of change as newness is reborn.
- Friendships that have gone pear shaped over a misunderstanding.
- Work you’re no longer engaged or passionate about.
- Teenagers that have gone off the rails and lost the big picture.
- Elderly parents with declining health and associated worries and decisions.
Now stack a couple of these and you’re in the land of anxiety, struggle and overwhelm BIG TIME.
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by Feeling Great | Apr 3, 2017 | Body
Adrenal fatigue is a widespread and growing epidemic in today’s world. Surprisingly few people realise they have it. It’s one of the leading contributors to fatigue.
Adrenal fatigue may sound like ….….. I wake up tired, need a coffee to get me started then limp through the day with more caffeine and sugar (bread, lollies, biscuits, cake) to keep me going, then I hit the wall in the afternoon and come awake just before bedtime, often sleep badly then I do it all over again the next day.
This story can vary according to, which of the three stages of adrenal fatigue you’ve made it to.
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