Six Areas Of Your Life You’re Burning Out In...
And how to fix it.
I have made the majority of my livelihood in the past two decades helping folks steer clear of the ever increasing cliff that is nervous system burnout.
Nowadays everyone seems to be working 3 jobs, eating shit food, doom scrolling and living on their own…
And we wonder why we are experiencing an all time high in workplace burnout, sick leave and increasingly low productivity?
Burnout costs businesses $322 billion annually in lost productivity, according to the World Health Organization.
And I think it’s due to a lack of knowledge of stress and how it all goes to the same pile. Let me explain. 👇🏼
Six Stress Pillars
Okay, first things first.
Stress ain’t bad. It’s mandatory. It helps us do shit. When moderated and regulated. Here is where people mess it up…
If we take on too much stress and have not the tools to navigate, our “allostatic load” turns negative and we get sick, injured or symptomatically “unwell”.
WTF is Allostatic Load?
Allostatic load refers to the cumulative physiological “wear and tear” on the body resulting from chronic exposure to fluctuating or heightened neural or neuroendocrine responses due to repeated or prolonged stress.
This concept was introduced by Bruce McEwen and Eliot Stellar in 1993 and underscores how chronic stress can lead to health issues such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and cognitive impairments. (Reference: Verywell Mind)
Chronic stress is what we wanna reduce and damn near everyone I talk to has absolutely no idea there are 6 areas that we can accumulate stress that contributes to this concept.
Physical: think exercise, movement and the like.
Emotional: think money worries, relationships etc.
Chemical: think whack sunscreen, aluminum in deodorant, forever toxins in makeup, fluoride in toothpaste, y’know… toxic chemicals we willingly throw on our skin…
Nutritional: think the food and water you eat/drink, nutrients… or rather, lack thereof, cause stress
Thermogenic: think how hot or cold you are, extremes cause stress
Electromagnetic: think wifi, blue/fluorescent light, 5g, screen time, EMF… all that causes stress
All of these areas of stress accumulate into the same pile.
So, if you think going to the gym after staring at a screen all day under office lights is a good idea, think again. Reconsider the perfume or cologne and after work beers with the boys too. It’s all adding up and contributing to your allostatic load. If you’re prone to getting sick, injured low energy or otherwise not in “game shape” - consider some lifestyle tweaks.
But what if that’s “just how I am…”
I wish I had a dime every time I heard this.
And sure, if you believe that’s just how you are. It always will be that way. If you wanna fight for you limits, you can keep ‘em.
I’m here to tell you that “normal” is far from “healthy” in many cases… and you can change. I am living proof myself. That’s what lead me to doing what I do now.
The first step is figuring out your baseline, and for that, I recommend WHOOP.
What’s WHOOP?
WHOOP is a lifestyle wearable that’s helped me reverse my age by four years. 👇🏼
I swear by this device for each and every artist athlete I coach. Why? Because it gives them agency: the confidence to make decisions based on the information they have. Without information, it’s hard to make educated decisions, right? So this is a tool to see how your lifestyle choices affect your health. That way you can have full agency over your own life and not leave it up to chance.
WHOOP gives me data straight to my phone and shows me what effect certain activities have on three main pillars of health: sleep, recovery and strain (aka stress) 👇🏼
I live a very active life. Physically and cognitively. When I’m not lifting weights or cycling, my day to day is typically coaching, speaking or producing music. All high strain activities.
Because I train hard, I require even more intense recovery. Ultimately, sleep is the king. And to sleep hard, I invest a lot of energy in things like meditation, breathwork and walking.
(Yep, you read that right, walking… more on that next week.)
One activity has crushed the rest when it comes to recovery and it may come as a surprise to some of you… that activity is music. 👇🏼
Music is medicine
I design very specific music to help aide recovery through brain wave entrainment. Literally making the brain more relaxed through the science of acoustics and frequencies. It’s powerful stuff and my last three days, despite being mega strain have seen 87%, 94% and 94% respectively.
All I started doing was some intentional sound work as my wind down practice before reading a couple chapters as I usually do in bed (I’m on Fight Club right now… so good!). The results speak for themselves. Music helps me sleep better, recover better and therefore each day I can get more important shit done, be of greater assistance to those I love and make each day more enjoyable and meaningful for myself and everyone around me.
If you wanna chat more about stress, music, recovery, sleep, strain or anything from this little blurb, please send a message below.👇🏼
I have a special offer going on right now with WHOOP if you’re interested in trying it out for 30 days for free. I’m also giving a free setup session to help you understand how to use it. Click the button below and when booking your session, book it a couple weeks out so you have time to get the WHOOP first. 👇🏼
K I love you. Message me with any questions and lemme know what stresses you out the most. Enjoy the beautiful next few days.
Chat soon! ✌🏻