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7 Steps to Finding Flow
Exhausted?
Strung out?
Shackled in your own invisible straitjacket of stress?
Seventy per cent of us spend most of our day in a state of stress, with our nervous systems in a position of fight, flight or freeze. Modern day stress has become pervasive in all aspects of our lives through constant pressure, the weight of perceived expectations and the drive to be always on.
Many live with an energy and nervous system that feels like a tightly clenched fist, rather than an easeful, gently unfurling hand. Staying shackled in a state of overwhelm and stress has far-reaching consequences on our health. We often only pay attention when illness strikes, having tuned out to all the messages our bodies were sending us along the way. Health whispers until one day it screams. Let’s not wait for the scream.
But how do we do this?
By having a nervous system in flow.
Everything we do transforms energy in our bodies into something supportive or destructive to us, emotionally or physically. What we need is a more easeful, beneficial energy in our lives.
In this book you will learn: What’s truly behind your stress, how stress impacts your energy, hormones and nervous system, how to move your nervous system into a state of flow, and how to make choices that support your energy, by living in harmony with your body.
Full of practical solutions, wisdom and strategies, 7 Steps to Finding Flow is your guide to lighten the load that stress places on us, and how to move through it with ease when it lands.
We can’t avoid stress, but we can deal with it differently and access better health, energy and balance. Nicky Rowbotham’s 7 Steps to Finding Flow will help you move from being overwhelmed and locked in by stress to a more easeful, resilient and aligned life. Let’s flip the script on stress.
Strung out?
Shackled in your own invisible straitjacket of stress?
Seventy per cent of us spend most of our day in a state of stress, with our nervous systems in a position of fight, flight or freeze. Modern day stress has become pervasive in all aspects of our lives through constant pressure, the weight of perceived expectations and the drive to be always on.
Many live with an energy and nervous system that feels like a tightly clenched fist, rather than an easeful, gently unfurling hand. Staying shackled in a state of overwhelm and stress has far-reaching consequences on our health. We often only pay attention when illness strikes, having tuned out to all the messages our bodies were sending us along the way. Health whispers until one day it screams. Let’s not wait for the scream.
But how do we do this?
By having a nervous system in flow.
Everything we do transforms energy in our bodies into something supportive or destructive to us, emotionally or physically. What we need is a more easeful, beneficial energy in our lives.
In this book you will learn: What’s truly behind your stress, how stress impacts your energy, hormones and nervous system, how to move your nervous system into a state of flow, and how to make choices that support your energy, by living in harmony with your body.
Full of practical solutions, wisdom and strategies, 7 Steps to Finding Flow is your guide to lighten the load that stress places on us, and how to move through it with ease when it lands.
We can’t avoid stress, but we can deal with it differently and access better health, energy and balance. Nicky Rowbotham’s 7 Steps to Finding Flow will help you move from being overwhelmed and locked in by stress to a more easeful, resilient and aligned life. Let’s flip the script on stress.
214 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2021
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April 6, 2021
Having landed myself in hospital a few times with serious stress related conditions, I am someone who is well aware of how we don't serve ourselves well with our modern lifestyles and the pressures that we absorb.
7 Steps to Finding Flow hit me right between the eyes, and I welcomed the impact. It gave me a simplified and organised way of looking at how I can better manage my self, my stress, and more importantly my wellbeing.
It is a human survival essential! Highly recommended.
7 Steps to Finding Flow hit me right between the eyes, and I welcomed the impact. It gave me a simplified and organised way of looking at how I can better manage my self, my stress, and more importantly my wellbeing.
It is a human survival essential! Highly recommended.
March 16, 2021
Loved this booked, and what was kicking me in the gut is the physical, mental and emotional triggers I get during and after stress which is so much the same as Nicky’s. Great book to start creating self-awareness and tools to implement to get to my flow away from stress.
April 8, 2021
An empowering book to regain ones life, health and self. This book makes sense of the body’s stress with out dumbing down the science. A must read for anyone battling stress and the ability to find balance in our modern day world.
April 5, 2021
Relatable, well written and insightful. I’m really learning how to slow down and that it’s totally okay and very necessary to take care of me.
July 9, 2024
A nice comprehensive book about healing ❤️🩹 your nervous system. It doesn’t explicitly talk about burnout, per se, but everything in this book can help with that.
It was nice reading a South African author, and seeing some South African references. Yet the standard is definitely up to international standards.
However, a lot of the information I already knew from researching on my own and following Instagram accounts that talk about the same topics. But that’s not on the author, it was just that not everything was very new to me. I
I wish I read this book before I became chronically ill and fatigued 🫠 also I like that there are practical tips and journaling prompts ✍️
It was nice reading a South African author, and seeing some South African references. Yet the standard is definitely up to international standards.
However, a lot of the information I already knew from researching on my own and following Instagram accounts that talk about the same topics. But that’s not on the author, it was just that not everything was very new to me. I
I wish I read this book before I became chronically ill and fatigued 🫠 also I like that there are practical tips and journaling prompts ✍️
August 4, 2022
There's a lot to be said about someone who willingly shares their bad experiences and how they go about fixing them. The book is a brave account of how to work on learning to live our lives in flow. Sans stress. The richness and value that reading this book has offered me is worthy of a recommendation, to others, who are able to connect and understand the immense challenges of present day corporate world. Stay uncorrupted and convicted in your flow.
August 3, 2022
Building the author inside you is a balancing act. While it is important to build craft and business skills, there comes a time you need to build something different. I noticed that most of my focus has been on ensuring I take the necessary steps to lay the foundation of my author career. Although I am grateful for the special authors who walked alongside me in this journey; I realised I have lacked mentors to teach me how to make my body work for me and not against me.
In the book Finding Flow; Flip the script on Stress by Nicky Rowbotham, I recognised that many of the physical manifestations of my stress highlighted areas I can manage differently to what she calls white knuckling through.
I started reading this book while I was in Port Elizabeth in the last days of my father’s life and I recognised some symptoms the author mentioned in a series of helpful checklists. As I sat hunched over my computer, I caught myself holding my breath, an instinctive response which mammals use when there is a predator lurking nearby. In nature, this response minimises the chances of the predator’s hearing you breathing. But neither deadlines at work, nor harsh email and not even the circle of life that robs us of our parents is a life-threatening situation, even though it may feel like it.
I realise most times some excuses that I and many authors have made in the past are not because of excessive workloads, load shedding or many other logical and fair reasons we give for lack of progress, it is because we have bought into coping mechanisms that reduce our resilience and in doing that can paralyse us. Some of these coping mechanisms are adding the stress cycle and fear that robs us of our mobility where it matters.
Her insights into many human stress responses made me realise why so many authors, when even faced with logical choices, struggle to take action. That feeling of “Leave me alone”, which I recognise in myself and the words that some authors who are on this journey with me resonated as I worked through the pages of this book.
Finding Flow is a helpful blend of personal experiences, science and checklists to help move the book from the head to the heart. If you, like me, are juggling tasks while you work through your purpose, this book is an essential manual to finding your flow.
In the book Finding Flow; Flip the script on Stress by Nicky Rowbotham, I recognised that many of the physical manifestations of my stress highlighted areas I can manage differently to what she calls white knuckling through.
I started reading this book while I was in Port Elizabeth in the last days of my father’s life and I recognised some symptoms the author mentioned in a series of helpful checklists. As I sat hunched over my computer, I caught myself holding my breath, an instinctive response which mammals use when there is a predator lurking nearby. In nature, this response minimises the chances of the predator’s hearing you breathing. But neither deadlines at work, nor harsh email and not even the circle of life that robs us of our parents is a life-threatening situation, even though it may feel like it.
I realise most times some excuses that I and many authors have made in the past are not because of excessive workloads, load shedding or many other logical and fair reasons we give for lack of progress, it is because we have bought into coping mechanisms that reduce our resilience and in doing that can paralyse us. Some of these coping mechanisms are adding the stress cycle and fear that robs us of our mobility where it matters.
Her insights into many human stress responses made me realise why so many authors, when even faced with logical choices, struggle to take action. That feeling of “Leave me alone”, which I recognise in myself and the words that some authors who are on this journey with me resonated as I worked through the pages of this book.
Finding Flow is a helpful blend of personal experiences, science and checklists to help move the book from the head to the heart. If you, like me, are juggling tasks while you work through your purpose, this book is an essential manual to finding your flow.
June 28, 2021
Amazing Nicky, really enjoyed reading about how you managed to reprioritise your work life balance. Massive achievement!
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