hey everybody my name is Alex welcome to health by Napoli where we only read
healthy books that don't suck I am here today with Michelle Cady and she has
just published her first book Self-Care in the City: A hundred ways to optimize
your nutrition fitness and wellness in an urban environment it's on Amazon
right now so if you're watching check the links below you'll be able to check
it out on Amazon and grab yourself a copy a hundred ways to optimize your
wellness and so I wanted to talk to you I'm super busy and stressed out these
ways will help us slow down a little bit and really take care of ourselves
which is the main important thing totally possible and I've been there
I've been there I was go go go go go type-a stressed-out but if you
keep your foot on the gas pedal after five weeks
I mean you burn out you crash and burn that's when like bad habits can develop
like relying on sugar and alcohol and partying and all these things
learning to kind of unwind and work on a few little things throughout your day
can make sure that you're not getting to that point of total burn out but we know
what it's like to be in that lifestyle of working in finance and commuting and
having to juggle a million things and then forgetting to eat lunch so all of
the things that I had to learn and that we've talked about over the years have
gone into this book because I want you to have it like five years earlier or
10 years earlier than we were able to figure and the only reason that we're
both able to do all the things that we do is because we follow a lot of the
guidelines in the book of how to stay balanced and well when you're doing all
this crazy stuff you don't have to be perfect all the time because that's
gonna stress you out so do what you can and build gradually and that's what
creates like long-term habit change I wonder if like having this on your bedside table would
be so good at because if you're having a stressed-out day you could just like
boom number 43 solo walk and think dang I should be going for a walk today and
then just like do it so you could just keep
this and like whenever you need a habit or something just like find a page and
do it I love that I'm using that I'm stealing that idea I want to hear from
you we have a fun thing planed we have you know five (actually 3!) different things we've
talked about and it's gonna come from Alex of like things that you have worked
on or struggled with or learn to overcome and then we'll talk about how
it actually ends up being in the book to a couple of the things that I still
stressed out about and work on and I just feel like some days it
just you know feels like your whole body it's like I gotta go I gotta run I got it and then
you get there and you're like I can't calm down
mm-hmm girl you have rushing woman syndrome that is in that's page
way 68 it's the rushing woman syndrome you're very optimistic person and you
can also do a lot so you try to fit all the things into a short period of time
and then you're rushing to the ferry and then you're getting to work and then you're
doing like a bajillion emails as soon as you got there so and you know people
have a super look what's your wish to for superpower
my wish that I have thought about it and my superpower if I could have only one
would be to time travel because I think that it is the coolest thing just to
like meet other people in different areas but also just in your daily life
to be able to like go back and erase that email that you shouldn't have sent
that would be amazing mine was I just wanted five minutes a day where I could
freeze time like you would literally freeze and I would be able to move
around in the world of frozen people like Alex Mack oh my god 1990s I love
it and with awesome is that you could be in a business meeting and you could just
freeze everyone pee you could drink some water you could do yoga stretches and then get
back into it and so what I do now and what I had to practice and practice and
practice and what I now teach my clients is is building in that five minutes
building in that 10 minute but when you see how amazing it feels on your entire
nervous system you're like oh I got this like this is why I do it now and like
when I just spent with you my the old me would have tried to fit a jillion extra emails in
and then literally grab my keys and rushed out the door but instead I was
like alright and I just like walk over there it's
gonna take an extra three minutes and then my nervous system literally had a
chance to like calm down before like a very productive hour we're having
right here so that's the five minutes superpower and you can create yourself it
does take some practice but when you do do it you're like oh oh I like thinking
about it right now I can imagine how if I put in my
calendar that I needed to be somewhere at 7:25 instead of 7:30 and then even if
I'm like trying to get there for 725 and then I'm a little bit late it doesn't
really matter because I'm not technically late you know what it means
then you don't have that anxiety it's the modern day stress response it's like
we're governed by our clocks and our time and so making sure that we can like
work with our nervous systems to just like still be productive and get shit
done yeah but in a better sort of nervous system
state I love that what's next what's next well so the other thing
that I deal with a lot which sucks so much I'll be sitting at my desk I've
been there all day I've been answering emails all day I'm just like whoo and
then the headache starts coming up from the neck and over the head and my
eyeballs are like and like I just literally can't wait to get home so that
I can take a nap can't do anything all evening like I'm useless so how do I get
rid of the headache way 57 is literally called that I could
just tell so you started touching your traps and you're like oh my gosh you
have tight you have tight neck totally you have tight back yes so what happens is we use
these muscles so working on those back muscles ideally we're supposed to be
like holding our entire body as I fix my posture while we're standing here oh my gosh so we
all still do it but really making sure that those traps they're not supposed to
hold your head up it's your back back to the nutrition it's the water you know it's
getting in the water it's stabilizing your blood sugar for the day so the
more fats you eat the more proteins you eat you're gonna get that beautiful
clean energy rather than sugar ups and downs which is what's leading to sugar
dips and crankiness energy crashes so that's something that helped me as well yeah and
I feel like it would help me because the tension headaches are definitely worse
when I didn't get a chance to eat lunch until really late or you know and when
that happens then somebody brings over a snack or like oh do you want some
Cadbury mini eggs and I'm like yeah I do actually
and then I almost immediately as soon as I eat it I'm like oh that was bad idea
you know the book covers nine different ways to avoid tension headaches alright
so the other thing that I have and I think kind of goes along with the
rushing woman syndrome is that I eat so fast especially at work I have like five
minutes I can get away from my desk heat up my lunch oh and then I'm back at my
desk and I'm like working again how can I slow that down chew your food and what
happens when you're rushing is your digestive system shuts down so when
you're stressed out and that could be from literally like rushing to get
somewhere just taking a few moments to really focus on chewing your food
because what happens when your digestion is a little slower is if stress and
you're not chewing your food these big particles of undigested food are in your
stomach and they ferment if you guys are getting weird smelling farts it's because
the food is fermenting in your stomach what we can do about that is chew food
more you did justice system can't digest all that that's what leads to bloating
or if you're bloated and you're like but I'm so healthy it's because you're not
chewing and slowing down to eat your meal let us know how it goes
yeah if you want to let us know in the comments below if you've read the book
definitely let us know what your favorite numbers are for your wellness
tips and then if you have any extra tips we're all still working on this wellness
thing no matter how many years we spend eating kale and sipping water and doing
all this wellness activities there's still so much to learn
and do and think about so anything that you have that you want us to know or
that you have tips about let us know in the comments below
yeah and that's why wait a hundred of the hundred ways is write your own way
right cuz you're the boss and your the one who is living your life and
experience in your life so there's a hundred things in this because it's just
what I chose and parced down into a hundred ways but your way is actually like most important way
listening to your body is the number one thing that you can do for
your health and wellness and like by listening to your body you'll probably
find some tips in here that you can use but like knowing which ones are gonna
help you the most that's an internal question that you need to ask yourself
mm-hmm write your own way you're the boss you're the CEO of your health well
thank you Michelle so much for being here today it's been awesome learning
about Self-Care in the City be sure to check the links below all of Michelle's
social links are gonna be there as well as the link to Amazon to purchase this
book for yourself you're gonna love it it's actually so beautiful I got this
book in the mail the other day and I was like oh my god I've never seen a more
gorgeous book like I'm so proud of you and so you guys should go and check out
your own copies Self-Care in the City by Michelle Cady you're gonna love it thank
you thank you let me know what you think you can find me I love feedback and I
love Amazon reviews so thank you alright guys have a great day thank you so much
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