God has given us much in the way of beautiful foods to keep our bodies nourished and well fed.
Annette’s Herbals FOR BUSY BUSINESS OWNERS BY ANNETTE HURN
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One of the areas I see women struggling with, is sleep. Sleep
As business owners, we all lead busy lives which can see us wearing many hats and juggling lots of balls!
is the time when your body rejuvenates and repairs itself, and it’s also the time when your brain processes all the day’s activities. Sleep is an incredible tool in the area of your health and if you aren’t getting enough of it, your body and mind will definitely feel it. I speak to many women who have
Taking care of ourselves can often take backseat while we
trouble either falling asleep or waking through the night
look after the needs of our clients and customers and this
and find themselves unable to go back to sleep. There can
can lead to us feeling pretty exhausted, and maybe even
be various reasons for this to be the case, but irrespective
burnt out. Let’s face it, when we reach that point, we’re
of the reasons; there are some beautiful herbs that can
really not going to be of much help to anyone, let alone our
offer relief for either of these scenarios.
clients. I’d like to share with you some of the wonderful things that God has gifted us with to help keep us ground-
Passionflower is a lovely calming herb that brings relief to
ed and energised so that we can be all He wants us to be,
an overactive mind and calms the nervous system. It also
and do all the things He wants us to achieve in our lifetime.
helps to relieve anxiety. Passionflower can be taken half an hour before bed to help you start settling down for a good
God has given us much in the way of beautiful foods to
night’s sleep.
keep our bodies nourished and well fed. He has given us huge varieties of vegetables, fruit, herbs, seeds, grains,
Another area we deal with as business owners is stress.
nuts, berries, fish, poultry, and meat, and by eating from
Stress is insidious and comes at us from many different
this smorgasbord of nutrition, we can fill all our nutritional
angles. You can have psychological, emotional, environmen-
requirements each day. He has also provided what we
tal, and physical stress, and if you have a combination of any
need when things aren’t going so well for us, and we find
of these, the effect is multiplied. The thing you must
ourselves succumbing to life in the 21st Century. I’m going
understand is that you need some stress for your survival;
to touch on a couple of the areas that I see in many of the
it’s only when it becomes too much for your nervous system
clients I work with.
that it becomes a problem.
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