Chronic Stress

The stress hormone cortisol ensures that your body is provided with enough energy quickly enough when needed. This is useful during short-term stress: the immune system is strengthened, you feel vital and fit. In chronic stress, however, you consume a lot of cortisol. As cortisol is crucial for the production of sex hormones, the high consumption of cortisol during stress means that these "feel-good" hormones are not enough. The result is a hormone deficiency, e.g. the hormones progesterone, estrogen or testosterone. You will notice this by the fact that you are chronically tired or often sick because your immune system is weakened. And by all the many symptoms that occur when your hormones are out of balance.

"I'm stressed".

You probably know this sentence from yourself. There are many reasons that can put us in stress: In times of corona viruses and climate change, existential worries and fears of the future are certainly among the top 10 stress factors to which we are exposed today. Maybe you are overtaxed in your job. Or unchallenged - even this can be stressful if you are bored all the time and can never show what you are actually capable of. Whether it's an exam, a colleague or a friend who constantly competes with you, is know-it-all and constantly creates an atmosphere full of conflicts. Or your partner separates from you. Or quite simply, construction site noise that can't be turned off or you have the feeling that you never really have time for yourself...there are many things that can get to you. I remember a vacation on a lonely and quiet paradise island in Thailand (yes, there was once :-). I was so stressed by my job that I completely freaked out the first week of my vacation because of the sound of the wind which blew over our bamboo hut!

Whether you experience a situation as stress or can handle it calmly depends on your perception and evaluation of the situation. Your reaction to stress can show itself on many levels. For example on the physical. The hormone system, the nervous system, the metabolism. Or you react psychologically, you might be irritable, aggressive or withdraw inwardly and you get depressed or desperate. If you are stressed, you are looking for a coping strategy. If this does not work, it often has health effects. That is why it is important to know how to deal with stress and how to counteract it. The best thing is, of course, that you manage to eliminate the stress completely. However, this is often not possible because it is connected with factors such as job, family, partner, etc., which you cannot simply "eliminate".

Here is my offer to you, as a coach and mental trainer, to help you find your resources and work out a stress management program that suits you. This can be many things, such as optimized time management, work-life-balance methods, relaxation exercises like a body scan or the Progressive Muscle Relaxation according to Edmund Jacobson (short: PMR), breathing techniques, Yoga Asanas or mindfulness meditation, to name just a few.

Counteracting stress is therefore a simple and effective method to stimulate your hormone production and to get your hormones in balance.

My next article deals with the topic "Emotional Blockages".

Your, Dagmar

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