recovery

Our bodies stress response was built for a different world. We’re biologically designed to escape from sabre-toothed cats: cortisol spikes, adrenaline spikes, we run to safety, and then…

Across this series I’ve talked a lot about recovery: settling the nervous system, processing stress rather than suppressing, giving the body its signal that the pressure has passed.…

If a forest is on fire, it needs water to put it out, not a helicopter dumping fuel onto the flames. So why can we not rest and…

If we’re exhausted after work, the obvious move is crashing on the couch. Sometimes that’s exactly what we need. But one of the more counterintuitive findings in recovery…