Episode Overview: Discover how stress uniquely affects women's bodies and learn practical strategies to build resilience through female physiology. Work with your body, not against it!

What You'll Learn

🔹 How women's bodies process stress differently

🔹 Impact on hormones, nutrition, and overall health

🔹 Practical stress regulation techniques

🔹 Movement strategies for different stress states

🔹 Energy management and boundary-setting

🔹 Simple habit-stacking methods

The Female Stress Response

🔹 Eustress vs. distress

🔹 Unique cortisol patterns and "tend-and-befriend" response

🔹 Effects on hormones, nutrients, metabolism, and sleep

Stress Awareness & Regulation

🔹 Quick stress inventory exercise

🔹 Diaphragmatic breathing (5 in, 7 out)

🔹 Pattern interrupts and 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique

Movement Medicine

🔹 Dancing, breathwork, nature, and strength training

🔹 The minimum effective dose principle

🔹 Creating your personal "movement menu"

Energy Management & Boundaries

🔹 Identifying energy drains vs. energy sources

🔹 Setting tech boundaries and learning to say no

Action Steps

1. Track daily stress levels on a 1-10 scale
2. Create your movement menu
3. Implement one key boundary this week
4. Choose one habit stack to practice

Quotable

"The goal isn't to eliminate stress but to build your capacity to respond effectively, recover completely, and remain grounded."

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