Fear Dissolving Ginger Tea
On March 11th, I left with my girls to New York for our March Break holiday. Three days before we left, the school reported a COVID case in my daughter's class. The night before we left, our music school called to say the girls' teacher had just been diagnosed with COVID. And when we landed in New York and met with my husband who had been there the whole week on business, he told me he thought he was coming down with a cold.
Did your insides do a little "oh no" with each sentence you read?
Because let me tell you that my husband's announcement put my stomach in knots. For the next five days, I couldn't stop thinking about scenarios of what we would do if this cold turned out to be COVID. I continuously told myself off for not cancelling this trip, when the world was obviously trying to tell me that COVID was still all around us and that I should just stay home. So much for being in the moment & enjoying this holiday.
After countless antigen tests, we began to trust that my husband's cold was the old-school kind. But it made me wonder: how long will the fear of COVID live within me - within all of us?
Fear is not an intangible emotion. The body remembers it and the organ centre where fear lives is the adrenals.
For how long will I flinch involuntarily when someone tries to hug me? For how long will I feel a pit in stomach every time I hear someone cough in my house? How many months or years will have to pass before my body catches up with my logical mind and stops fearing COVID?
This week in my wellness coaching platform Thrive Mind Body, we are unpacking fear, its impact on the nervous system & the mindset & nutrition tools we can use to help us process our fears and gently let them go so that they do not fester in the body causing undue harm.
As one of my great mentors, Jane Durst says: Our psychology becomes our biology. And our issues go into our tissues.
And when emotions, like fear paralyse us - we go into survival mode. And in this mode, we stop taking risks. And when we stop taking risks, we stop performing, growing; we stop feeling, we just go through the motions, until every day feels like Grounhog Day.
Can you (or your business) afford not to grow this year?
This mind-body phenomena is what we unpack each season in Thrive Mind Body because we are what we eat - and so much more.
Ready to start taking risks again and leaving Groundhog Day behind you?
The next intake for Thrive Mind Body is May 2nd. RSVP here.
Plus, May is the perfect time for a spring clean and to show the liver some love. And guess what? The liver is the organ centre for anger & frustration. Looking for a safe, non-judgemental place to channel that emotion? See you in May!
In the meantime, enjoy a cup of my Fear-Dissolving Tea: one of the many recipes included in this Season's therapeutic, love-led nourishment recipe collection.
Ingredients
2 tsp freshly grated ginger
1 stick cinnamon
1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1.5 cups water
Method
Place the grated ginger & cinnamon in a sauce pan. Add water & bring to boil. Summer on low for 30min.
Strain the team & discard the ginger & cinnamon. Add the lemon juice & serve. Enjoy!
p.s. Make double or triple the recipe & store in a tightly sealed glass jar in the fridge.
How it Works
Ginger is am amazing adaptogenic root. I have used it with hundred's of clients and it has NEVER let us down. It supports flow in the digestive system, the adrenals, the lymphatic system. Without proper flow, toxicity (including toxic emotions) can get stuck in the body. Plus, it's got the added bonus of tasting great! Cinnamon is fabulous for blood sugar regulation which is compromised by fear because fear activates our adrenals glands provoking a cortisol & insulin response.
Want to have access to a weekly therapeutic recipe collection that shows you how to use food to love your body? Join Thrive Mind Body for its next intake in May.
Cristina Tahoces is a nutritional therapist and owner of Thrive Nutrition Practice, a global online wellness business that helps corporate leaders be more physically & mentally resilient to stress. She shared her nutritional approach on the TEDx stage in 2017 as part of the TED Women’s Global Conference. She is a sought-after expert speaker & panelist on burnout, women’s post-natal wellness & metabolic health.