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Special places - close to my heart

📍 Mangawhai and Whananaki New Zealand

You aren’t procrastinating - your nervous system is literally in “Freeze” mode.

When work stress hits a tipping point, our bodies revert to primal survival states. At the office, it doesn’t look like running from a predator - it looks like this:

Freeze: Staring blankly at your screen, feeling paralyzed by your to-do list, or completely zoning out in meetings.

Flight: Toxic busyness. Cleaning your desk, sorting old files, or doing low-priority tasks just to avoid the one big project causing you anxiety.

I can completely relate to this. When I worked in corporate, my default stress response was actually “Fight” - which always showed up as intense irritability. I used this exact technique to break my own loop, and it works just as powerfully to unlock your brain from freeze or flight.

If you are stuck in either of these loops today, your brain cannot think logically until you signal to your body that you are safe.

Want to break out of this loop as stress rises?

Comment CHECK below and I’ll DM you my 2-minute Workplace Stress Assessment.

It identifies your specific stress response and gives you my simple breathing tool to instantly unlock your brain and reset your nervous system right at your desk.👇