21/01/2026
Suffering stress/trauma can be caused by many situations, ranging from major life changes (bereavement, divorce, job loss) to work pressures (including bullying), financial worries and internal factors (perfectionism, negative thinking and past trauma).
Whatever the stress, the physical and mental results can be the same. The body automatically goes into survival mode, the ‘fight-or-flight’ response when it perceives a threat, resulting in an increased heart rate, tense muscles and intensified senses. If a stress is ongoing, the sympathetic nervous system will continue to be triggered and leave one in a state of ‘high alert’. Of course, if you know the trigger to your stress, you can try to avoid it but often it’s not that simple. The only other way to resolve this is to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, the ‘rest and digest’, to restore calm to the body.
More posts to follow on how to deal with stress.
