If our stress bucket is already overflowing from some of the less obvious factors on the list above, we become less resilient to stress. Then the slightest little thing can be enough to set us off.
Yes, at some point it’s important to work directly on mindset, psychological stress and emotional factors. There are some simple habits you can implement to make big progress in this area, even if you can’t get rid of all sources of stress in your life.
But I would argue that a real food diet is a very important starting point in this area as well.
It’s difficult to get stress under control from the emotional side if we’re constantly filling our stress bucket with physical stressors.
Through something known as the gut-brain axis, making dietary changes that improve our gut health can actually make us more resilient to stress and less anxious, less irritable and more.
Changing eating habits also tends to be the “low hanging fruit.”
Those habits I alluded to that can help you overcome emotional or psychological stress may be simple, but not always easy to get yourself to actually do them.
In my experience and most of my clients, we find it is actually much easier to work on changing how we eat than diving deep into emotional factors, at least at first.