The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution: A Proven 4-Week Program to Rescue Your Metabolism, Hormones, Mind & Mood by Aviva Romm M.D

Author:Aviva Romm M.D. [Romm M.D., Aviva]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

PERFECTIONISM

At a swank yoga retreat where I was teaching, I asked a roomful of more than a hundred fit “yogini” students to raise their hand if at any time in the past six weeks they’d passed a mirror and criticized their bodies. Immediately, every woman in the room shot her hand up in the air. Every time I ask that question to groups of women, the same thing happens. It’s not surprising given that 91 percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies and that 97 percent of us have at least one “I hate my body” thought every day. During our waking hours we’re barraged with images “proving” to us that we’re not enough—thin enough, perfect enough, detoxed enough, good enough mothers; you name it. If there’s anything we women have in common, it’s the feeling that we’re never enough. Perfectionism is a survival pattern that most women struggle with—some even more than others, particularly if love and achievement were tied together when you were young.

While aspects of perfectionism might have brought you some mighty benefits, there may be an exhausting shadow side you’re ready to kiss good-bye—a relentless pressure to be better that keeps you striving more than thriving, the “imposter syndrome” that leads you to fear you’re going to be found out to not be as good at something as people think you are, or the inability to rest and relax because you always have to do more. These feelings not only make you feel awful, they also drive you into SOS. Your cortisol goes up just like with any chronic toxic stress. Pretty soon the acclaim and success you receive are overshadowed by the exhaustion you feel or the symptoms you develop, and you really want to crawl into a hammock and sleep for six months.

Overexercising? Get Off the Treadmill

I’ve worked with numerous women whose symptoms of SOS began after months of training for an athletic event or after years of being an athlete, or whose perfectionism shows up in the form of overexercise to have “the perfect body” (which, don’t kid yourself, can show up as wanting to have “the perfect yoga body,” too!).

In moderation, running, or any aerobic training, has a positive effect on health. However, the physical stress of overtraining can cause overtraining syndrome, which is adrenal depletion with symptoms including chronic fatigue and burnout, particularly if the overtraining is accompanied by a triggering stressful event, and without adequate recovery time, that pushes you beyond your coping level into SOS. Conversely, low-intensity exercise lowers cortisol levels and is much more in keeping with a plan to leave SOS. If you’re in SOS, or notice that you crash and burn after a major workout, it might be time to cut back on your training plan, get more restorative for a while, and replenish yourself.

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