Here is another great opportunity for you to hear more great speakers and become more empowered!
I’m excited to announce that I’m a featured expert in a great upcoming event: The Future of Healing Online Conference – sponsored by the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
This breakthrough virtual event goes live on June 22nd and you can register for FREE here: https://ipe.isrefer.com/go/fhconf/trudyscott/
The Future of Healing Conference showcases the voices of 70+ top professionals and thought-leaders. They’ll explore cutting edge thinking in:
- Nutrition
- The Psychology of Eating
- Functional Medicine
- Cultural Transformation
- Spiritual Awakening
- Sexuality, Supplements Herbs & Medicinals
- Planetary Health
- Our Global Future
- And much more…
We’ll be expanding the definition of healing like never before. This will be the largest online conference of its kind, with interviews that are honest, in depth, edgy, information rich, and designed to give you some new inspirations and “aha” moments.
Here is a great “willpower stress anxiety mindfulness” snippet from Dr. Aviva Romm, a Yale trained, board certified family physician, midwife, herbalist, and award winning author, an internationally respected authority on botanical and functional medicine for women and children. She’s the author of seven books on natural medicine, including Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health.
There’s some interesting science about what happens when we try something with willpower and it doesn’t work. Let’s say you’re trying to quit smoking or you’re trying to eat sugar or trying to cut a coffee habit because you feel like you’re drinking too much coffee. Let’s say you fail. In your own mind, you’ve failed or fallen off the wagon. Guess what? The very stress that led us to have that habit in the first place, as soon as we kind of feel we’ve failed, we’re back in that same stress mode. Those same stress hormones are pumping out. Guess what the first thing we do is? We reach for exactly what it was that we were trying not to do.
The first part of that is creating mindfulness. The first step in that mindfulness is to actually become aware of what those physical sensations are. If we can start to identify what those stress response symptoms are, that’s the key, because once you know it, then you can start to go, “Oh, okay. It’s not just that I’m an anxious person. It’s not just that I’m this weak willed person. This is actually my survival mechanism kicking in and what can I do to feed whatever that survival mechanism is in a healthy way, not in a self-sabotaging way?”
The symptoms are pretty much the same that we recognize with anxiety. We might feel our heart racing a little bit faster, our breathing may become faster. We feel a certain amount of kind of chemical anxiety, right?
The first thing I do is say, “Okay, let’s get really keyed in to what those symptoms are, just start to recognize and pay attention.” If you’re feeling those agitated, amped up feelings, then the next step comes into place that I call “permission to pause.”
Then the next question is, “How do I really want to feel?” I think that’s such an important question that most of us don’t really ever ask ourselves.
My good friends and colleagues Marc David & Emily Rosen, founder and director of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating will be hosting this one-of-a-kind online event. You’ll be impressed by their engaging style and the fascinating collection of passionate people they’ve brought together. It’s time for an approach to healing that honors all of who we are – body, mind, heart, planet and soul. If you’re ready to step into the Future of Healing, then please join me for FREE here: https://ipe.isrefer.com/go/fhconf/trudyscott/