A candid conversation with Kat & Bec, as they discuss trialled strategies to holistically manage stress.

Topics discussed:
• Today’s society is noticeably feeling an increase in stress.
• Traditional fight or flight response.
• Modern day signs someone may be in fight or flight mode.
• Cortisol and the release of stress hormones.
• The biological impacts of being in a heightened state and the connection to chronic diseases and digestive issues.
• Kat & Bec’s personal experiences with altering diet, eliminating and reintroducing foods. The profound effect reducing processed food and increasing real quality foods can have of personal health and happiness.
• Reduction of stimulants such as caffeine & alcohol.
• Increasing daily movement, grounding and natural element exposure.
• Trialling meditation, how it can help clear the mind and take you out of the fight or flight mode and the need to be out of these modes to start the healing process. Subscribe to The Integrative Duo's YouTube channel for more on meditation.
• The importance of belly breathing.
• Gratitude, journaling and inner child work. .
• Increasing your quality and amount of sleep, review your sleep hygiene.
• Blue light exposure and the implications for physical and mental health.
• Be kind to yourself and others.

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