Flat-tack.
Flat White.
Flat-lining?

There’s no point in coming to see me for a bottle of my ‘calming’ herbs if you’re running around fuelled up on caffeine. Quite simply, I won’t give them to you. It would confuse the bejesus out of your body (Up! Down? Up? Down?). And also, it’s just plain daft! Why would you spend money buying ‘calming’ herbs when it would be more sensible to save money by not drinking ‘stimulating’, store-bought coffees?

Have you ever stopped to consider, that if you didn’t have coffee, you might not have a problem with stress + anxiety at all?

It’s you Mums with young families that I worry about most.  You’re always running around trying to be all things to all people. I get that when you eventually have time to come see me, that you’re not in a good space. You’re very tired + wound up. I also understand you have a strong emotional attachment to your daily “trim-flat-white” because it’s the one. little. thing. you get to do for yourself.

However, you’ve got a real problem if when I suggest you remove caffeine from your diet, you react like I’ve asked you to give up your first born!

Please don’t think you’re mounting any kind of defence by telling me that you’re, ‘only having one coffee a day’. While the act of imbibing only lasts a matter of minutes, the caffeine can have a stimulating effect for anywhere between 8—14 hours.

Caffeine activates your Sympathetic Nervous System (or as it’s more commonly referred to, your ‘Fight or Flight’ mode). Therefore, when you drink a cup of coffee, you’re literally evoking a sustained state of fear.  Unfortunately, in this state, you’re not very receptive to listening to health advice — let alone common sense.

If you’re resistant to removing coffee, I will recommend that you take a very small ‘experimental break’ from your beloved beverage. Unfortunately, many people then find themselves in an entirely different predicament. Now, instead of feeling ‘strung out’, you feel ‘flat’ or ‘bored’,  and don’t really ‘feel alive’.  Straight away you decide that you’d rather go back to feeling fearful and anxious (which you’ve conveniently relabeled ‘energetic’ and ‘motivated’). You want your coffee back.

So, you’re back where you started. Only now you seem quite content with your status quo. You’ve somehow convinced yourself that, ‘it’s better the Devil you know’. However, now you’ve also managed to convince me that you need my help more than ever!

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