Stress Fluency
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
stres - flu.en.cy
noun
1. a proficiency in understanding your stress.
2. the ability to communicate with your nervous system in order to thrive.
Stress Fluency is foundational for healthy relationships, emotional and physical well-being, and genuine, energy-giving, soul filling happiness.
Why Stress Fluency?
It can help with
Chronic Pain
Stress can cause inflammation, muscle tension, nerve sensitivity, and brain hypervigilance. This leads to constant pain despite tissue healing. Your pain’s on-off switch breaks under stress, and Stress Fluency resets the circuit.
Digestion
IBS, constipation, bloating, and poor digestion are symptoms of an overloaded nervous system. You cannot stress and digest at the same time. Stress Fluency returns digestion to its factory setting.
Sleep
The “Rest & Digest” system cannot function optimally under stress. Despite debilitating fatigue, sleep is often a problem when you are in survival mode. Stress Fluency allows the brain to feel safe enough to welcome sleep again.
Relationships
When we are dysregulated, relationships become strained. Stress makes us feel under threat which compromises our ability to connect, listen, and feel loved. Stress Fluency is a salve for rekindling and maintaining solid social bonds.
Health Behaviors
Addictions are a desperate plea for stress relief. Without regulation of the nervous system, positive health behaviors are impossible to maintain. Stress Fluency provides the scaffolding for better self-care choices.
Stress
Anger, reactivity, overwhelm, helplessness, numbness, and apathy are all hallmarks of an overly taxed nervous system. Stress Fluency helps you reclaim your authentic self while understanding why those responses are normal and often warranted.
Meet Chantal Donnelly
Physical Therapist
Chantal Donnelly is a physical therapist and author of the book Settled: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World.
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She is the founder of the wellness company, Body Insight, and creator of two rehabilitation videos: Strong Knees and Pain Free at Work.
In 2019, Chantal became certified as a Resilience Toolkit Facilitator. She combines her 26 years of PT knowledge and experience with nervous system science to help people with chronic pain, overwhelming stress, and stress related illnesses.
Through videos, workshops, and her book, Chantal teaches body- focused tools for calming the nervous system. She believes that Stress Fluency can make the world a better place.
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