Welcome to the first of our NEW LOOK Campaign letters. We aim to bring you inspiration, tips, guidance and therapy. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for posts sharing our team's knowledge at tackling life's problems and health concerns, we're here for YOU. This chapter, we are focusing on a biggie:

STRESS - Take Control

We all know it - that gut wrenching feeling, the sleepless nights, the pain between your shoulders, the vice around your head, the racing heart beat and the illnesses that follow. Stress is a BIG deal, and with more and more of us feeling the symptoms more and more often, you can't always control the world around you but YOU can regain more control of your feelings and we want to give you more tools so that.

Take a look at the diagram below. Do the symptoms sound familiar? 

Pretty much all of Stress symptoms are due to an imbalance in the body's response systems:

Fight / Flight - triggered by the sympathetic nervous system which activates when we feel stress to prepare our body to focus on eliminating it, it shuts down resources to other areas, affecting the whole body and our focus.

Rest / Digest - triggered by the parasympathetic nervous system, which only kicks in when we feel safe enough to send resources to areas that need healing. This is why your tummy often gurgles when you have a massage!