March 2021

The Importance of Self Compassion – Stress and Food

Firstly let me clarify what stress is. It’s essentially anything that causes your body to mount a stress response.
A stress response is where stress hormones are released from your adrenal glands, your heart rate increases and blood vessels widen, your pupils dilate, energy shifts from housekeeping processes such as digestion to your muscles and your blood sugar levels increase. This all happens so that you are prepared to fight or take flight away from the very thing that stressed you.