After facing her own health struggles and diagnoses of cervical cancer at just 25 years old Christina Pann dove into the world of holistic health. Her nearly 10 year journey has brought her to a place where she can share her wisdom on rebuilding her body. Christina is an avid researcher, passionate about health, and called to teach. 

In this episode Christina explains stress hormones, their effect on our body, and how to combat them. The conversation becomes vulnerable when Christina shares recent bouts with panic and anxiety and what she is doing to combat them now that she is educated on how to handle stress. 

Every mother, wife, and woman needs to hear Christina's advice on healthy ways handle the very real emotions we experience. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Fight or flight mode
• The physical effects our emotions have on our bodies
• What the sympathetic system is: fight or flight branch of our nervous system.
• What the parasympathetic nervous system is: rest & digest branch of our nervous system.
• Cortisol & Adrenaline: our stress hormones
• Flourish Health Summit
• Symptoms of high stress hormones:
  • anger, chronic anxiety, panic, storing weight in the abdomen, insomnia, chronic hunger, lightheaded, doom or gloom outlook, digestive issues. 
• Our gut being a part of our nervous system
• Become an observer vs participant in our emotions
• Deep Breathing techniques
  • Focus on deep diaphragmatic breathing
  • Practice 5 minutes, twice a day
• Anxiety & Anger in kids

And for anyone who has not seen it, make sure to click here for Christina's favorite music video. 

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https://www.christinapann.com/

@christinapann 

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Music from this episode provided by Joseph McDade.