What if the symptoms your body gives you, what if the parts of your body that frustrate or sadden you, are simply messengers asking you to eat, drink, move, think, believe or perceive in a new way? I wanted women to understand the significant way stress can impact the chemistry of their body, the many body systems it can affect, and offer them practical solutions to this.

It is an excellent book that examines how constantly rushing and having a never ending to-do list has a substantial cost to our physical and mental health. The body, therefore believes that it is doing you a great big favour by shutting down the adrenal production of progesterone. The two branches related to this concept are the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), also known as the amped up “fight or flight” response, and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), the calming “rest, digest, repair and reproduce” arm of the nervous system. One of the biggest markers for how our hormonal system is handling our lives is our period shifting, and Libby says there are some clear things to look for. While this is valuable during stressful or threatening situations where injury might result in increased immune system activation, chronic stress can result in impaired communication between the immune system and the HPA axis.It means that we learn to feel comfortable in making ourselves a priority and recognising the importance of taking care of ourselves just as well as we do others.

The philosophy behind this course is to bring you back to trusting yourself and what your own body needs through consuming nutrient-rich wholefoods. It all boiled down to one simple truth that so many of her patients shared: “None of it was a disease; it was just that nothing was working as well as it once did,” Libby says. Unexplained weight gain – you’re eating and moving the same way, or you feel like you’re eating a lot less than others but your body fat isn’t shifting.It’s for those who feel like people pleasing runs too much of their life and for those who have moments where they wonder when it will be their turn. Wellness Wednesdays are monthly educational events where you can hear from industry experts and ask questions, empowering you to improve your health. As I described in my TEDx talk science suggests humans have been on the planet for between 100,00 and 150,000 years and for the entirety of that history, that’s what adrenalin has meant to the body. As your body links progesterone to fertility, the last thing it wants for a woman is to bring a baby into an environment where it perceives she is not safe and that there is no food.

Men get to shut up and tolerate it or else pay for the divorce and see their life's work get carved up so their ex-wives can "find" themselves in a two bedroom apartment, take trips to Bali with their girlfriends and go in with dates with men they meet on Tinder then complain all the men want of a single mother is sex.And just as importantly, the course offers you practical strategies to literally retire from the rush, while still leading a full and meaningful life you love.