Author: shanicelpe
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Protected: Fuel Recovery. Calm the System. Sleep Like You Train
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Quick, savoury, and made for calm nights
Some nights, it’s not your body that’s tired — it’s your mind that won’t stop spinning. You lie in bed with a body that’s ready to rest… but your nervous system? It’s stuck in traffic. Overthinking. Over feeling. Overstimulated. You wouldn’t hit the gym without warming up — so why expect your mind to crash…
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Your Nervous System Is Listening
Some nights, it’s not your own life that keeps you up. It’s what you read. A headline that pierced straight through your chest. A story you didn’t expect. A photo you can’t unsee. And then we expect ourselves to shut it all off at night and sleep like nothing happened? Not how the nerves system…
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Protected: 🌙 Calm Fear, Sleep Better: The Power of Wrapping Your Index Finger
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The surprisingly relatable truth about why you’re so tense
If you’re serious about managing stress, you need to master one skill: Letting go. That “too much” feeling we get? That’s stress. And it usually means we’re holding on to stuff we don’t even realise. Like: . Old arguments we replay at night . Expectations we never asked for but feel we must fulfill .…
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Command Your Cardio: Treadmill Workouts for Stress Relief, Sleep, and Heart Strength
There’s this moment before I step onto the treadmill. It’s quiet. But my mind isn’t. I think about how hard it’s going to feel. How long thirty minutes can truly be. How many times I’ll glance at the timer, wishing it would move faster. Each step was forced. One of my friends told me straight…
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Engage Your Core: The Foundation of Strength and Calm
Let’s be clear: If you want to stay mobile, strong, and independent for life—core engagement is non-negotiable. It’s not advanced. It’s not optional. It’s not cosmetic. It’s foundational. 🗣️ “I’m blessed I can still walk…” I once had an elderly man tell me: “I’m blessed I can still walk. If I do resistance training, I…
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Eating to Ease Stress
Life can be a lot, can’t it? The endless to-do list. The worries that wake us before dawn. When I’m in those moments—when stress wraps itself around me like a weight—I often forget to eat well. But here’s the truth: the way you fuel yourself is part of how you fight back. You don’t have…
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Sleep is a Skill—Train Like You Mean It
I used to dread bedtime. Not because I wasn’t sleepy—but because I knew I wouldn’t actually rest. I’d lie there with my eyes closed, but my mind? Loud. Restless. Heavy with the weight of everything I didn’t say or fix or finish. No matter how exhausted my body was, my mind still thought it had…
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Stress Management
When Stress Becomes Too Much… Sometimes, stress feels like a slow leak in the soul. You smile, you function, you keep moving—but inside, something feels off. Heavy. Unspoken. But here’s something I’ve learned (after plenty of trial and error) : most of our stress doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s usually tied to something—a problem…
