We explore the four types of stress responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. By understanding these responses, you can recognize how your body reacts to stress and learn to manage it more effectively. We delve into the characteristics of each response and provide tips and techniques to help you regulate your nervous system and build resilience. Whether you struggle with avoidance, numbing out, people-pleasing, or aggressive behavior, this post has insights and strategies to help you navigate stress and create a healthier relationship with yourself and others.

The 5 responses to stress - using the Traditional Chinese Medicine Approach to your Stress Personality

At Radiant Effect we see five pillars of health that must be addressed in order to help our bodies maintain good health. These five pillars of health, are the top five ways to improve your health.

At Radiant Effect, this is it for us! The time of year when we feel most grounded, nurtured and in alignment with our purpose.

It wasn’t always this way though. Fall used to be full of anxiety, pressure, and a fight to stay healthy as we piled on the expectations for ourselves and loaded up with obligations.

So what changed?

What image comes to mind when you think of self-care? A woman in a bathtub overflowing with bubbles? Maybe she’s at a spa getting her nails done? Maybe sipping tea while curled up with a book?

These are all delightful images and certainly may fall in the category of self-care but all the bubble baths, pedicures and tea times in the world aren’t going to help us feel better long-term if we’re missing the most basic foundations of self-care.