SSR COACHING
Sleep, stress management, recovery and change coaching
Whether you're feeling stuck and need to make changes, or big changes are coming your way, my job as a coach is to help you understand and navigate change from every aspect of your life. I will give you the tools to learn skills that will make you resilient and better in copping with stress and change, setting boundaries and expressing your needs.
The Pillars
Sleep
Sleep is the power house of recovery. During sleep, our bodies are working to support healthy brain function and maintain physical health. It also plays an important role in the way we feel and perform while we are awake. We can help ourselves get more, deeper and better sleep.
Stress management
Stress is our bodies response to anything that requires attention and takes us out of balance. It's not inherently good or bad; whether our response is positive or negative depends on our ability to recover. We can learn to better manage it and use it to our advantage, by developing resilience that will allow us to change, adapt and grow stronger.
Recovery
Recovery is what separates "good" stress from "bad" stress. Good recovery allows us to grow, perform better and thrive. We can recover through sleep, nutrition, movement and other practices, skills and behaviours that can be learned and developed.
The Approach
Deep health
Health is no longer understood as the mere absence of physical illness or injury. According to the World Health Organization WHO, it is also a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.
The human body is a system of interconnected systems that work together. So is health, in all its dimensions.
Finding balance in each one of them will allow us to thrive, and hence it's important to understand how they are all connected, which stressors we can find in them individually and which skills we need to handle them appropriately.
Biopsychosocial Perspective
Humans are complex beings and our existence and experiences are a combinations of multiple different factors and their interaction.
The biopsychosocial perspective makes room for this complexity and has three foundational components:
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Biological: how the body works (metabolism, immunity, digestions, hormones, age, biological gender, genetic makeup) ;
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Psychological: mindset (thoughts, feelings, perceptions, expectations, memories, values);
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Social context: relationships and environment (friends, family, coworkers, education, culture, society).
It recognises that a person's health, performance, behaviours, experiences, expectations and preferences aren’t just random, but rather intrinsic to each individual and affected by the dynamic interaction of elements and systems within and around.
Change and growth mindset
Change can be hard but sometimes necessary. It is not always linear, so it can be frustrating and uncomfortable. It is not one big decision but the sum of many smaller ones; a combination of actions done consistently. It is a process and it takes time.
And precisely because it is not easy, we may have a tendency to avoid it, or not go all the way through it. Thankfully, it can be intentional and guided if we understand how change works and have a system of support, with tools, practices and skills that lead to action, and a sustainable plan with clear priorities. Change is possible as long as we are willing to consistently put in the work and effort.
A change and growth mindset is flexible and focuses on the things that we can actually control (mindset, behaviour, environment -to some degree...) rather than on those we can't.
SSR in the workplace
After the pandemic, stress mangement is more relevant than ever. Employees are burning out!!
Deadlines, long working hours, sedentary jobs, high pressure environments, lack of sleep, poor support systems and in general, lack of balance, are resulting in chronic stress and everything that comes with it.
It's a circle and without the right tools to understand what is happening and get out of it, things can only escalate: long sick leaves or worse, losing the ability to go back to work altogether. Adding to the long term effects that chronic stress can have in health.
It is management's responsibility to take action and put measures in place to solve the problem and, more importantly, prevent it.
Stress is a costly disease, in every sense, but it can be managed with the right support system, guidance and tools.
We need to start talking about stress as a real mental and physical health problem, create awareness and eliminate the stigma in the workplace so that we can start facing it and managing it.
We need to create safe spaces for people to voice their needs and worries, for people to reach out and speak up.
We need to offer help and take care of those around us. We need prevention!!
Services
Informational talks
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Deep health
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Sleep
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Stress management
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Recovery
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Nutrition
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Fitness
Team workshops
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Test some practices
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Learn techniques to build-up skills
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Invitation to think and self-evaluate
1:1 coaching
Stress looks different for everyone and so does recovery. 1:1 coaching offers guidance through the process, however that might look, in a safe space.