This fortnight's Small Shifts, Big Impact is for the mornings that start in a rush, the first hour that is gone before you've caught up with it, and the sense of being behind before the day has properly begun.
How you spend the first hour tends to set the pace your nervous system runs at all day. Begin it wired and rushing, and your body carries that urgency into everything after.
Pick one, just one, for the next two weeks.
Something before the coffee
Before the phone
A slow start
1. Something before the coffee
A balanced breakfast is a good start when the morning allows it, and plenty of mornings do not.
On those mornings, coffee becomes the first thing, often before anything else. Coffee on an empty stomach can land a bit harder, and for a body already low on fuel it can add to the jittery feeling rather than steady it. Something small first, even without a balanced breakfast, gives your body a little to run the morning on.
This fortnight's Small Shifts, Big Impact is for the bloating you've stopped questioning, the lunches eaten standing at the bench, the gut that plays up in your busiest weeks, and the growing list of foods you're suspicious of.
The food gets the blame, but digestion runs on the rest-and-digest side of your nervous system, and when the day never slows, the gut is often where it shows first. It's...
This fortnight's Small Shifts, Big Impact is for the weekends that still feel like weekdays, for arriving at Monday no more rested than you left Friday, for treating rest like something you earn once the list is done.
Your nervous system reads pace, not the calendar. If the pace does not change, it does not register that anything has shifted, no matter what day it says at the top of the page.
P...
This fortnight's Small Shift, Big Impact is for the days that start tired and end depleted, the meals that don't hold, the nights that don't quite restore, and the quiet sense of feeling slightly behind even when you've done a lot. These can read as separate problems. They're often the same one showing up in different places.
Pick one, just one, for the next two weeks.
The Balanced Plate
The D...
Fortnightly NewsletterÂ
Small Shifts, Big Impact
Three evidenced-based micro-habits, every fortnight. For high-functioning women who look fine and feel fried.
Why Your Energy Disappears Every Afternoon
For high-functioning women who hit the wall every afternoon and don't know why. A free two-minute self-assessment, five questions, that shows you where your energy is quietly leaking.
