The Unexpected Impact of Stress on the Body: Insights for Business Owners

“Understanding the hidden impacts of stress is not just about managing symptoms—it's about unlocking a deeper level of personal and professional transformation.” - Be Coffin

Introduction: Unveiling the Hidden Effects

Welcome to a revealing exploration of how stress, often intertwined with underlying trauma and pain, can profoundly influence not just our personal lives but also our business performance. While the focus is often on immediate stressors, it’s crucial to recognise that deeper emotional and physical pain can amplify stress, leading to significant impacts that we may not immediately recognise.

Understanding Stress, Trauma, and Pain

Stress is a familiar feeling characterized by mental or emotional strain, but its roots can sometimes trace back to unresolved trauma and chronic pain. Trauma encompasses emotional and psychological scars—like past abuse or loss—that leave a lasting mark. Pain can manifest as ongoing physical discomfort or emotional distress, such as chronic stress or anxiety. Together, these factors create physiological changes that can stagnate in our systems, leading to blocked energy flow and disruptive thought patterns that affect our daily functionality and decision-making processes.

The Invisible Barriers in Business

On the surface, issues like plummeting sales, low motivation, or poor decision-making seem strictly business-related. However, the undercurrents of stress combined with unresolved trauma and pain often set up invisible barriers that are the real culprits behind these issues. These hidden factors can stagnate energy and creativity, essential for driving business success.

Impact on the Nervous System and Trauma Responses

Unresolved trauma and chronic stress can dysregulate your nervous system, resulting in heightened anxiety or panic reactions under pressure, or a paralysis-like state where making decisions becomes overwhelmingly difficult. This can lead to burnout, excessive reactions to minor stresses, and an overall inability to cope with the normal ups and downs of business life.

Emotional Exhaustion and Burnout

Prolonged stress, especially when linked with deep-seated pain or trauma, often leads to emotional exhaustion. This depletion of emotional resources diminishes your motivation and energy, making even minor tasks feel daunting and contributing to procrastination and task avoidance.

Cognitive Function and Decision Making

Stress and trauma can impair the brain's executive functions, particularly in areas responsible for strategic thinking and planning. This impairment can fog your decision-making abilities, leading you to make fear-based choices or to avoid taking necessary risks, thereby stalling your business's growth and development.

Impact on Relationships

The strain of managing personal stress and trauma doesn't stay contained—it spills over into your interactions with others. This can lead to miscommunications and conflicts with colleagues, partners, and clients, potentially fostering a toxic work environment.

The Role of Self-Sabotage

One profound effect of stress, when mingled with trauma, is the tendency towards self-sabotage. This might manifest as missing deadlines, avoiding responsibilities, or turning down opportunities, all of which are unconscious strategies to avoid potential failure or further stress.

Energetic Impact and Business Dynamics

On an energetic level, stress and trauma can create blockages that disrupt the natural flow within your biofield—a field encompassing your physical and energetic bodies. These disruptions can hinder your business operations by clouding your judgment, affecting your focus, and diminishing your ability to make clear-headed decisions.

Subconscious Patterns and Business Decisions

Our deepest beliefs, shaped by past traumas and stresses, heavily influence how we perceive and react to situations. Changing these deep-seated patterns is essential for breaking cycles of self-sabotage and for realigning your business strategies with your goals.

Conclusion: Recognising and Addressing the Impact

Understanding and addressing the impact of stress, especially when compounded by trauma and pain, is crucial for any business owner. Clearing these emotional and physical blockages allows you to engage more fully with your business, enhances your decision-making capabilities, and supports healthier business relationships. Recognising the signs and actively working through these challenges can transform not only your personal health but also the health of your business.

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Be Coffin is a holistic healer and founder of Ways to Heal and Thrive, with over 25 years of experience in empowering individuals, especially empaths and sensitive business owners.

She specialises in overcoming psychological patterns, physiological pain and subconscious blocks to help clients unlock their full potential and live their dream lives.

Using techniques from hypnotherapy, NLP, energy healing, biokinesis and life coaching, Be guides clients through deep healing, helping them release limiting beliefs, past trauma and physical pain to achieve holistic wellness.

Her mission is to empower you to be, do, and have it as you choose, by overcoming subconscious wounds that hold you back.