As most of us experience a stressor at least once a day, they prescribe that you commit to doing at least one of these, ideally more, every 24 hours, too. Here, extracted from their book, is the sisters' suggestions of finishing the cycles off.
Topline: completing the stress cycle – and thus taking yourself out of the stress response – is a serious imperative for your health. It means lit up blood pressure (AKA an increased chance of heart disease) as well as digestion that's been played with (the stress response slows your gut function down, so that you can put all of your energy into running or fighting). As the Nagoskis note, when this happens on the daily, your stress response is in chronic activation. The problem? You've not completed the stress cycle. You scroll your phone for whatever information you can find, panic eat half a pack of biscuits and try and distract yourself with Netflix. It chooses flight, and commands that you bolt to safety somewhere far away, where terrifying changes can't get you. You receive a 'breaking news' notification on your phone on Friday evening that cases of Covid-19 are going back up. In a their book Burnout: The secret to solving the stress cycle (RRP £16.99), identical twins Dr Emily Nagoski and Dr Amelia Nagoski – who have a PhD in Health Behaviour and a Doctorate in Musical Arts between them – argue that we lead lives humming with stress, but we never complete the 'stress cycle.' Cracking this, they say, is the key to unlocking ourselves from our hyped up cages and into greater mental clarity. Of course, at the root of this are deep, systemic issues: problems around our work culture and entrenched inequality, to name just two.Īs such, it's time to talk about coping strategies to reduce stress that are accessible, free and truly have the power to help you in times of acute stress. According to YouGov and The Mental Health Foundation, 74% of the UK say they feel so stressed that they’re unable to cope.
Persistent feelings of strain, tension and overwhelm are rife in the UK, and only continue to grow amidst a cost-of-living crisis. Stressed? If so, know that you are far from alone.
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