Calming Foods Every High Performer Should Eat to Reduce Stress
I want us all to feel calm. For our Oura rings to have three crowns, for a light breeze to always be reinvigorating your face, and for you to always hear the gentle waves of the ocean in the distance.
But that’s just not reality. And for so long, maybe forever, we’ve decided that in order to be calm, we have to go on vacation. Work hard, stress overload, just to get us to a week of vacation bliss.
I decided long ago not to subscribe to such nonsense. I don’t expect my every day world to be calm. I’m a working mom of four kids. Calm is not a word I would use to describe my life. but I found ways to calm my body and mind no matter what was happening.
Being able to reset our nervous system and settle our anxiety is often done with breathing techniques and mindset tools – all of which are amazing. But I started looking at food as a way to calm not only our minds during times of chaos, but also our bodies. What do our bodies need at the end of the day to calm down?
Foods with zinc, magnesium, B12, and tryptophan (yes. The Thanksgiving turkey kind of tryptophan). But also foods high in healthy fats are all great options when we need our families bodies to enter that calm state.
If you need to find the calm in the chaos of your busy, working mom life, here’s where I would start:
Choose foods are that aligned with how you want to feel. Not just what’s in front of you.
Keep it simple. Use this guide below to help you make simple meals that calm your anxiety and nervous systems
Don’t worry about the trends – people always told me to drink tea to calm down. I don’t like tea. But I know the benefits, so I found a specific matcha latte followed by an elderberry tea that’s to die for that works for me, my body, my lifestyle.
To get my full list of calming foods (a great thing to hang on your pantry door to have on hand), plus the nutrients they hold, and a whole host of recipes to calm you and your family, get my step by step guide here.