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The Hidden Impact of Micro-Stress Doses on Your Daily Life
Johanna Melchiorre Johanna Melchiorre

The Hidden Impact of Micro-Stress Doses on Your Daily Life

Stress can be like a shadow that follows us everywhere, casting a dark cloud over our daily lives. As we navigate our careers as freelancers, parents, or employees, it's not a question of if we'll experience stress, but rather when.

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5 Tips To Improve Your Work-Life Balance
Johanna Melchiorre Johanna Melchiorre

5 Tips To Improve Your Work-Life Balance

There is a certain irony in writing a post about work-life balance while working on my laptop from my bedroom. Sometimes work, and life inevitably sit dangerously close to one another or overlap in some capacity. Therefore I can’t sit here and tell you some hard and fast rules you need to follow to be 100% productive yet effortlessly sociable while also prioritising time for yourself.

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5 easy and powerful ways to reduce stress sustainably
Johanna Melchiorre Johanna Melchiorre

5 easy and powerful ways to reduce stress sustainably

In this fast-paced, modern world of 24/7 availability, it is not surprising that a growing number of us feel stressed out. Stress is a natural part of life; some amount of stress can even be helpful. The tricky thing about stress is that we have to keep adjusting the way we manage it regularly because our body acclimates to those new stressors we face regardless of their impact. It is automatic.

So how can we create ways to manage stress sustainably? How can I reduce stress without losing my sense of self-discipline?

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Modern stress: status, social media, and disconnection.
Johanna Melchiorre Johanna Melchiorre

Modern stress: status, social media, and disconnection.

Today, when we fear we are not facing a lion. It can be a difficult conversation, a heated up email, a bad comment on social media, feeling not having enough time, not being able to make a decision, disease, financial issues that activate what we call “the stress response.” When we are facing those situations, our body believes we are under attack, and sends out the same signals to the body as our beloved ancestors.

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How I became a Holistic Life Coach
Johanna Melchiorre Johanna Melchiorre

How I became a Holistic Life Coach

In life, you can create big changes in several ways. Quite naturally, by letting yourself be, going along with the movement of things, making yourself one with the circumstances of life. Connecting the dots of your life and build our edifice. The second one? By seizing the unexpected opportunity of a hidden dream.

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