Stress is high for almost everyone in the 21st century.
Stress affects our emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and physical health, usually negatively.
Having a regular de-stressing practice can help improve your mindset, ability to cope productively, physical health, and overall wellbeing.
If you struggle with emotional eating, a regular de-stressing practice can help break the links between stress and eating (this is what helped me break free from my emotional eating more than anything)!
We have to purposely choose to de-stress. Relaxation won’t find us by accident.
This may be a challenging habit if you have trouble slowing down.
This may be a bit easier if you already have some kind of relaxation practice or have been excited to implement one.

Stress affects multiple areas of our lives. It affect our mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. In particular, too much stress can actually worsen metabolic health and makes it harder to lose weight/fat.
Notice and name the ways that stress affects them. Make a list that we can go over and discuss how to manage. Begin to recognize your own “stress fingerprint” — your unique signs of stress, as well as the ways you choose to cope with this stress.
Dig into which coping methods are useful and helpful, and which are not. We will collaborate on a second list of possible options for de-stressing as well as coping productively with stress in general.
When you observe your stress signs, try to pause (rather than react immediately), and then choose one of your productive coping mechanisms if possible.
At the end of the 2-week period, review what you noticed and learned, as well as which coping techniques worked best.
Keep it simple as you start out. Just try things. All de-stressing adds up.
If you feel comfortable and already have a pretty good hold on your stress, work on improving your consistency and execution even more!