🗞️ The Wellness Briefing – Edition No. 09: “The Emotional Overdraft” | August 26, 2025

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When Your Stress Habits Start Compounding Like Debt
Stress isn’t just about volume—it’s about compounding. That skipped meal, missed workout, tense conversation you didn’t address? They all stack. And if you’re not replenishing—nutritionally, emotionally, energetically—you’re not just tired. You’re in an emotional overdraft.

This week, we’re talking about debt. Not financial, but physiological—and how to pay it down.

Let’s begin.

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🧠 1 Insight Worth Reading: A recent Inc. magazine article discusses that stress, anxiety, fear, and conflict are all too common in many workplaces—you can’t always avoid them. But when these become the norm, they can take a serious toll on your mental, emotional, and physical health.

How can we make life easier on ourselves and contribute to workplaces where we don’t suffer from so much stress? There is one sacred practice that could lead to your own mental health and happiness: peace.

Continue reading the full article on Inc.

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❝ 1 Quote to Consider:

“Son, your ego’s writing checks that your body can’t cash.”
— Top Gun

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📰 1 Study to Know: According to a study published in BMC Nursing, accumulated micro-stressors—defined as "low-grade but persistent stress events"—are strongly correlated with immune suppression and mood dysregulation over time.

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💡 What That Means for You: It’s not just the big breakdowns. Daily depletion adds up—especially when rest isn’t proactive, but reactive.

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✅ Try This: The “Emotional Deposit” Practice: Each day, name 1 thing that restored you:

• A kind word

• A moment of beauty

• A real meal
  Write it down. Let your system register it as fuel.

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🎯 Pro Tip from the Guide: You don’t need a week off to recover. You need ongoing inputs—small, consistent acts of replenishment.

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📈 The Approval Matrix: A judgmental grid for high-functioning exhaustion. What’s nourishing, what’s draining— and what’s quietly sabotaging your week..

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See you next Tuesday.
– Michelle

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