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Sneaky ways to beat stress Every Saturday, The Smartest Coach in the Room delivers helpful takeaways on the hottest nutrition and health topics and the world’s most effective coaching techniques. (Did some amazing friend forward this to you? [Subscribe here]( When You Can’t Sucker Punch Stress, Poke It to Death Stress can creep up on you in sneaky ways. Decision fatigue, unresolved conflicts, the noisy radiator polluting your Zoom audio: These everyday, often small things can wear on you. Suddenly, without having experienced any obvious catastrophe, you find yourself feeling up-to-here with it. Thankfully... Recovery can be sneaky and cumulative, too. Just like stress, recovery can be big or small, dramatic or mundane, and come from many different areas of life. Check out this chart: You can use it to help yourself (or your clients) chip away at cumulative stress. [A chart outlining the ways that lead to deep stress and deep recovery.]( How? Start wherever you can. If you know exactly what’s draining you, you can work on improving that area. For example, if poor relationship quality is causing you stress, an honest conversation with a friend could be a form of recovery. But you can also just pick any recovery practice—decluttering your living space, starting a journaling habit, or just aiming to eat more veggies—and it’ll count toward reducing your total stress load. Even if you’re not directly addressing your deepest, hairiest stressor, you might find that by taking better overall care of yourself, you start to feel better. The threat of the original stressors might feel less daunting, or you have more energy to face them. For a fascinating (visual) exploration of the balance between stress and recovery, check out: [6 Charts Show Why Recovery Isn’t a “Worthless Trend”: It’s a Health and Fitness Cheat Code]( Take care, Alex --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Picot-Annand, PN2, Holistic Nutritionist Editorial Director Precision Nutrition Home of the world’s top nutrition coaches --------------------------------------------------------------- What did you think of this email? Precision Nutrition Business Insider's #1 Choice for Nutrition Certifications in 2022 --- To view this email as a web page, click [here.]( Precision Nutrition Inc. 18 King Street East, Suite 1400 Toronto, ON, M5C 1C4, Canada Finally, nutrition makes sense. Visit us at [www.precisionnutrition.com]( today. Follow us on [Unsubscribe or Manage Preferences](