If you were to have told twenty five year old me that ten years later on a random Saturday I would be crippled, out of work, and spending my morning limping around the mall with my four year old only to get kicked by God in the food court while eating some crappy Chinese food I would think you were nuts....
But that's what happened.

Stress level check!!!

If I were to ask you to rate your current level of stress on a scale of 1-10,
1 being "I am feeling pretty chill about life" to
10 "I am completely overwhelmed",
where would you place yourself?
Be honest.

Oddly enough clients who come to see me for chronic digestive issues, hormone imbalances and even autoimmune disease, usually place themselves at a 4 or 5 on the stress scale.  These are chronic ongoing conditions that manifest after YEARS and sometimes even decades of prolonged stress. The body is not saying "MEH, my stress level is average".

Most people have relatively high levels of stress but don't seem to know how it is truly affecting them.  
Stress is such a common part of life that it is expected and we may respond to it in these ways:

1) Ignore it. 
Ignorance is not bliss.  It usually bites us in the ass later, as the body wants to communicate that it is stressed and being ignored.

2) Notice it and suck it up anyway.  
This is often a learned response from parents and is usually multi-generational and cultural.

3) Not realize or notice what the signs of stress are. 
Stress is so perpetual for most of us that we think a stressed state is 'normal', therefore we don't know how good we can truly feel once we identify and resolve it.

4) Realization of stress and take actions to alleviate.  
This is great!, But realization of stress and action is only good if you follow through.  If you take a simple and obvious approach like an extra taking a day off, vacation, hitting the gym or yoga class occasionally, or trying a meditation app, and stress is sticking around, then it is time to get to the root.
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So how do we truly know what kinds of things are at the root of our stress?
How does stress manifest as symptoms?
What do we do about this?

Let's unpack some of this and get you some awareness and hopefully some relief.