
Living & Working Lighter Mini Series: Procrastination, People Pleasing & Busyness
About this episode
The truth is, we can’t live and work in a lighter way when our body is under sustained stress.
But stress can be sneaky! It can often show up in ways that we don’t necessarily attribute to stress.
These more subtle signs (like procrastination, people pleasing or busyness) are actually attempts by your body to seek a feeling of safety, because it’s feeling threatened or unsafe in some way.
Once we understand this, we can learn to meet that need in a more supportive way.
This is what magically shifts these patterns and moves you into a feeling of flow in your life.
This is how we can start living and working in a much lighter way.
This episode discusses:
> How our nervous system responds to stress through "fight, flight, freeze or fawn" responses. Understanding which response you relate to can provide insight into how your body is communicating feelings of stress.
> What the patterns of people pleasing, procrastination and busyness are trying to communicate to you
> Listeners are invited to identify their most common stress response and contact Annabelle for a personalised voice note with tailored tips to support that response and help the body find safety (and therefore a lighter feeling).
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