Post Pandemic STRESS & Comfort Eating
10/13/21 • 12 min
How the pandemic may have affected your nervous system, and vicarious trauma. These experiences may lead to comfort eating, or using substances to regulate how you feel.
As we find ourselves recovering from COVID-19, we may still be coming to terms with the impact the virus has had on both our bodies and minds. None of us has escaped its effects. When we first went into lockdown, many of us were anxious and felt lonely. Those first few weeks were all about calming our nervous systems down from fight or flight. We responded to a very real threat by going into survival mode. But where are we now?
Try this podcast next: 10 Ways to Overcome Anxiety
Citations
This week, my citations are from my own media mentions. Here are some Covid-19 related published articles, where I have been asked to contribute:
- Why A September Reset Might Be Just What You Need
- The ‘Will We, Won’t We?’ Narrative Of June 21 Is Exhausting
- 9 Therapist-Approved Tips To Tackle Nighttime Anxiety
- Do you have a FODO?
- How to deal with the 'deer in the headlights' feeling of overwhelm
- Why more empathy among employers is key for post-pandemic recovery
- Post Covid-19 stress: How to recover
- The effect of your upbringing on your comfort eating - How to heal
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How the pandemic may have affected your nervous system, and vicarious trauma. These experiences may lead to comfort eating, or using substances to regulate how you feel.
As we find ourselves recovering from COVID-19, we may still be coming to terms with the impact the virus has had on both our bodies and minds. None of us has escaped its effects. When we first went into lockdown, many of us were anxious and felt lonely. Those first few weeks were all about calming our nervous systems down from fight or flight. We responded to a very real threat by going into survival mode. But where are we now?
Try this podcast next: 10 Ways to Overcome Anxiety
Citations
This week, my citations are from my own media mentions. Here are some Covid-19 related published articles, where I have been asked to contribute:
- Why A September Reset Might Be Just What You Need
- The ‘Will We, Won’t We?’ Narrative Of June 21 Is Exhausting
- 9 Therapist-Approved Tips To Tackle Nighttime Anxiety
- Do you have a FODO?
- How to deal with the 'deer in the headlights' feeling of overwhelm
- Why more empathy among employers is key for post-pandemic recovery
- Post Covid-19 stress: How to recover
- The effect of your upbringing on your comfort eating - How to heal
Want to see if we're a good fit for working together?
Let's book a complimentary telephone call to talk.
SCHEDULE A COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION – with no obligation.
If this podcast helped you, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts
Previous Episode
BURNOUT, Fatigue, & Comfort Eating
I talk about how you can recover from burnout and fatigue, Covid-19 stress, and how it has affected our eating. The pandemic brought us so many challenges. Each one of these might cause us to seek comfort. Part 1 is about stress burnout.
This week, my citations are from my own media mentions. Here are some Covid-19 related published articles, where I have been asked to contribute:
Try this podcast next: 10 Ways to Overcome Anxiety
Why A September Reset Might Be Just What You Need
The ‘Will We, Won’t We?’ Narrative Of June 21 Is Exhausting
9 Therapist-Approved Tips To Tackle Nighttime Anxiety
Do you have a FODO?
How to deal with the 'deer in the headlights' feeling of overwhelm
Why more empathy among employers is key for post-pandemic recovery
Post Covid-19 stress: How to recover
The effect of your upbringing on your comfort eating - How to heal
Want to see if we're a good fit for working together?
Let's book a complimentary telephone call to talk.
SCHEDULE A COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION – with no obligation.
If this podcast helped you, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts
Next Episode
The Truth about SOCIAL ANXIETY
How you can tackle social anxiety, and start to recover?
We’ve been challenged in isolation like never before! But, we need other people to feel OK in everyday life, and to heal.
During Covid-19, we may have become very self-reliant, and may have shut down, at the same time as craving good contact and connection. It would be natural to be struggling and awkward with social contact now.
Try this podcast next: 10 Ways to Overcome Anxiety
Citations
This week, my citations are from my own media mentions. Here are some Covid-19 related published articles, where I have been asked to contribute:
- Why A September Reset Might Be Just What You Need
- The ‘Will We, Won’t We?’ Narrative Of June 21 Is Exhausting
- 9 Therapist-Approved Tips To Tackle Nighttime Anxiety
- Do you have a FODO?
- How to deal with the 'deer in the headlights' feeling of overwhelm
- Why more empathy among employers is key for post-pandemic recovery
- Post Covid-19 stress: How to recover
- The effect of your upbringing on your comfort eating - How to heal
Want to see if we're a good fit for working together?
Let's book a complimentary telephone call to talk.
SCHEDULE A COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION – with no obligation.
If this podcast helped you, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts
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