Resiliency Rx: Stress-Proof Your Brain & Body
Stress is not a psychology problem, it’s a chemistry problem. In order to maximize our intellect and potential, we first have to optimize our chemistry. And we don’t have to be ace chemists to do it! This paradigm-shifting session unveils that it’s not about “managing” or “reducing stress” (which isn’t possible) rather how to be more resilient to the stress we all face. And we can do it 60 seconds at a time.
• Learn the physiology and neurochemistry of stress as a physical event...in a fun (yes fun!) and easily understandable way.
• The hormones of stress: the good, the bad and the ugly.
• Your brain on stress: you are literally losing your mind.
• Realize how stress negatively affects the body, brain, cognitive performance, focus, communication, decision making, as well as what can be done to improve cognition.
• What is resiliency and how do you build it?
• Introduction to the Micro Strategies of resiliency, confidence, and performance.
The Chemistry of Confidence
Body chemistry is at the heart of our behavior, which includes our level of confidence. In order to become more confident, you have to change your chemistry and Jenny will show you how to become your own Confidence Chemist! You’ll understand the 5 chemicals of confidence as well as how/when to increase or decrease them to bulletproof your mindset, mood and confidence.
• Discover the connection between your chemistry and your level of confidence and presence.
• Understand the 5 Chemicals of Confidence: Serotonin, GABA, Dopamine, Endorphins, and Cortisol.
• Recognize the symptoms of chemistry that don’t support confidence.
• Know how and when to increase/decrease these chemicals to optimize your mindset, emotions, and leadership abilities.
• Learn 3 strategies to create the ideal chemical recipe for feeling confident, grounded, focused, and in control.
Stop Burnout In Its Tracks: Expand Your Capacity & Get Recovery
Employee stress and burnout are two of the top issues organizations and people are facing today. This session takes a physiological and chemical approach to how to truly optimize the human operating system for sustained high performance that does not come at a cost to people’s health, sanity or engagement.
• Stress is the stimulus for growth, but only when it’s followed by recovery.
• Understand how to expand your capacity in a healthy, sustainable way.
• Understand what qualifies as “high quality” recovery, and how to get it physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
• Learn how to balance the demands you have on your energy with a renewable supply.
• Create a plan for expanding capacity and getting recovery physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
From Overworked, Overwhelmed & Overstressed to On Fire, On Purpose & On Your Game
Getting clear on purpose is essential for resilience. Research shows that people who lack purpose in life have a higher incidence of depression and anxiety and that they’re less resilient to traumatic events. Insight and deep knowledge of beliefs is also essential for performance in business and life. Many employees are struggling with focus, productivity, and prioritization. Certainty of beliefs immediately creates a sense of clarity, direction and accountability necessary for making important decisions - and taking appropriate action - in stressful times.
• Understand the connection between purpose, chemistry, resiliency & engagement.
• Establish clarity on how you define success professionally & personally.
• The answer to the ONE question that guarantees clarity, direction, commitment, prioritization and accountability both inside and outside of work.
• Learn about neuroplasticity of the brain, storytelling, and how to strengthen stories that work as well as get rid of stories that prevent engagement, action, and accountability.
Micro Bursts: Your Pharmacy For Stress in 60-Second Doses
Exercise is the #1 way to rid your body of the stress hormone cortisol and build resilience. It's also one of the most effective ways to boost energy and improve your sleep. Instead of having to add exercise to your "to-do" list - and your stress levels - you'll learn how to improve your resiliency and fitness in short, doable, effective "Micro Bursts" - that you can do anytime, anywhere, with no equipment.
• Build your physiological resiliency: learn how to recover from stress more quickly and efficiently, as well as to raise your threshold for it.
• Manage your internal pharmacy for stress and learn how to access it.
• Gain knowledge to self-restore the chemistry of your brain, body, and mindset in less than 60 seconds.
• Get ideas on how to improve your resiliency for future stressors.
• Gain ways to increase your energy capacity to deal with the multitude of demands you are faced with on a daily basis.
• Get Play It Out: how to use the stress response to your advantage.
• As a side-effect to being more resilient, you'll also improve your fitness, health, energy, and sleep
Take a Bite Out of Stress
We all have to eat every day, and our choices are often affecting our chemistry and levels of stress without us knowing it. In turn, our chemistry and levels of stress affect the food choices we make. It’s a cycle of stress many people are on.
This new and different perspective on nutrition helps participants understand how to eat in a way that optimizes their chemistry, energy, cognitive performance, focus and health...and that it’s easy and convenient to do. They’ll walk away excited and empowered with a new set of tools for feeling better both psychologically as well as physiologically.
• Learn the physiological connection between nutrition and the big five: stress, cognitive function, mood, decision making, and appetite.
• Uncover how you may be putting stress into your mouth multiple times a day.
• Understand the ways that chemical and biological feedback loops can have serious negative consequences on your focus, concentration, productivity, energy, sleep, health, and weight ... and how to break them.
• Discover how to eat in a way that minimizes stress on the body as well as increases your levels of productivity, performance, energy and health.
• Realize how environment shapes your food choices and how to use this to your advantage.
• Grasp why willpower doesn't work when it comes to nutrition, and what to use instead.
