From Surviving 2 Thriving

17/11/2025

Why You Feel Exhausted Even When "Nothing Happened" Today

Your body doesn't know the difference between a lion chasing you and a difficult email from your boss. Both trigger the exact same stress response: cortisol floods your system, your heart races, muscles tense, ready to fight or flee.

🤔Here's the problem: When that lion chased our ancestors, they ran. They fought and they physically completed the stress cycle.

💻You? You sit at your desk. You take deep breaths. You "stay professional."

And that stress? It stays trapped in your body. This is why you can finish a day where "nothing really happened" and feel utterly depleted. Your nervous system has been revving in high gear with nowhere to go.

⚛️The Neuroscience Bit (In Plain English):

When stress hormones activate, your body expects physical action to metabolize them. Without that completion; running, shaking, moving, the stress remains physiologically stuck. Your nervous system stays dysregulated. Over time, this becomes chronic stress, then burnout, then serious health problems.

Most workplace wellness programs miss this entirely. They tell you to "relax" or "think positive" while your body is literally vibrating with unprocessed stress hormones.

💡The Solution?

Complete the cycle. Not through positive thinking but through your body.

Simple techniques like intentional movement, breath work that actually matches your nervous system state, or even brief shaking can signal your body: "The threat is over. You're safe now."

🧠This isn't woo-woo. This is Peter Levine's research. Bessel van der Kolk's work. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory.

I've spent 18+ years translating this complex neuroscience into language that busy professionals actually understand and techniques they can use between meetings.

🏫Want to learn how?

My signature course From Stress2Bliss under my FromSurviving2Thriving program starts TODAY and we're accepting last-minute enrollments. I'll teach you exactly how to complete your stress cycles using evidence-based techniques you can do anywhere.

Learn the neuroscience without the jargon. Get practical tools that actually work.

Your nervous system will thank you.

05/11/2025

The stress paradox - why the FromSurviving2Thriving program was created. Read the full article in the link below.

November Week 1 is here! Where has the year gone, eh?

Suzy Butz is on the cover and she shares: You can spend years trying to avoid stress — or you can finally learn to use it.

What if the racing heartbeat, the shaky hands, the pressure you feel right before something big isn’t a sign of weakness… but a signal of growth?

In The Stress Paradox, we explore why the very thing you’re running from might be what your body and mind were built to handle — and how letting your stress complete its natural cycle could change everything you thought you knew about resilience.

Because maybe the goal was never to live without stress — but to learn how to dance with it.

When was the last time stress actually helped you grow instead of holding you back?

To read this week’s issue, go to dwcmagazine.com and click on the cover.

24/10/2025

I was recently honoured to be a guest on the 'Inside the Asperger's Studio' podcast hosted by Miles Reid. The podcast is about chats with people from all walks of life who deal with ASD and ADHD. Reid talks to a range of people such as those in the profession through to mothers who have children on the spectrum. Its a place where two people can sit and share thoughts on the spectrum. I have posted the link in the comments below to the episode 'Beyond Coping: Science-Backed Techniques to Downregulate Your Nervous System and Break Free from Burnout'. Be sure to check out the other episodes on the podcast for more insights into ASD and ADHD.