Integrative health coach Rosie Underwood explores the real links between stress and ageing
One morning about a year ago, whilst trying to keep a business afloat mid-pandemic, mid-breakup, with ill family members, whilst living in a place I no longer wanted to call home, I optimistically entered my bathroom to get ready for a day of work. I caught my reflection, and instead of seeing the bright eyed and bushy tailed optimist I’d grown to love over the years, I was horrified to see someone I could barely recognise staring back at me. The stress of that ‘Covid cloud’ had quite literally etched itself onto my face. I had tired eyes with delightful big dark circles framing them, thin hair, no meat on my bones, and fragile limbs that kept getting injured. To add insult to literal injury, my memory had become that of a 90-yearold’s, and I had absolutely no idea why I was standing there in the bathroom in the first place, staring at this very sorry reflection of mine (get the violins out.)
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