🗞️ The Wellness Briefing – Edition No. 03: “Optimize Your Nervous System, Not Just Your To-Do List” | July 15, 2025

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Quick, high-impact wellness insights for ambitious professionals. Delivered Tuesdays.

Welcome Back to The Wellness Briefing

Performance isn’t just mental—it’s biological. And yet, most ambitious professionals try to out-plan burnout with better task lists instead of addressing the actual operating system driving their behavior: the nervous system. This edition is about working with your physiology—not against it.

Let’s begin.

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🧠 1 Insight Worth Reading: Whether you can be said to have resilience largely depends not on any particular psychological test but on the way your life unfolds. If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount? Read on The New Yorker

📰 1 Study to Know: Gallup’s 2024 State of the Global Workplace report shows that employees who don’t feel they have control over their workload are 3x more likely to report symptoms of burnout.

💡 What That Means for You: You can’t fix burnout with better time management alone. You have to start with nervous system regulation—creating space to actually feel safe, grounded, and resourced.

✅ Try This: Use the 90-second reset between tasks:

• 3 deep breaths

• One body stretch

• One intentional thought ("I’m safe. I’ve got this.")

🎯 Pro Tip from the Guide: Phase 1 of the Recovery Plan is Physiological Recovery. Focus on:

• Sleep hygiene

• Nutrient-dense meals

• Gentle movement (like walking or yoga)

• Low-stimulation time

🎶 This Week’s Recharge Playlist:
Spotify Link – "Relax Yourself" Unwind, recharge, and find your inner peace with this collection of chill vibes.

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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