Boost Your Love Hormones: Oxytocin Decreases Stress and Supports Women’s Wellness

Are you caring for yourself as much as you care for others?

Self-care is essential for women’s wellness, as stress can wreck havoc on our hormones, cycles, and health.

It’s amazing how powerful rest and rejuvenation is to our feminine health and wellbeing.

To be a successful women in the modern world filled with increased stress, demands, and challenges we must even more deeply embrace the ancient practices of natural healing.

It’s vital to allow ourselves regular breaks to rest, and to nurture and pamper ourselves with natural healing arts that support and nourish our vitality, sexuality, and feminine health.

It’s time to recognize the necessary nature of self-care for restoring health and wellness.

Self-care is necessary to support longevity, decrease stress, and enhance wellbeing. It is the foundation of a thriving vibrant body, mind and spirit.

Did you know that stress is the #1 leading cause for 70–90% of primary care visits?!

Stress impacts women more than men, and women manifest more physical and emotional symptoms from the effects of stress, resulting in menstrual challenges, depression, anxiety, insomnia, digestive issues, skin changes, loss of libido, and much more.

Women have a special stress response called “Tend and Befriend”, when we experience stress we can reduce it by engaging in caring activities or connecting with other women, which creates oxytocin — the hormone of love.

The higher levels of oxytocin we have in our bodies, the less stress effects us, and the more we feel love, bliss, bonding, connection and health.

The love hormone, oxytocin, is enhanced by estrogen, and thus it effects women stronger. We have a high need for oxytocin to support our everyday wellbeing and combat the effects of stress. Oxytocin deprivation, through high stress, lack of touch or self-care, makes us grumpy.

This hormone of love is released in peak quantities during birth and breastfeeding, and it also stimulated through sensual activities, pampering, massage, enjoying delicious foods, and more.

There are many ways to boost your oxytocin levels including:

• Dancing
• Listening to music that you love
• Making music
• Singing
• Stretching
• Hugging
• Kissing
• Cuddling
• Massage
• Talking to someone you love and trust
• Spending time with good friends and loved ones
• Sharing a meal with friends or family
• Being kind to others and doing good
• Spending time with pets
• Doing something you love that relaxes and inspires you!

Self-care is health care!

What have you done to support your health today?

Make time for the activities and people you love in your life because it’s vital for your health to experience love and feel good.

Originally published at https://wellnessblessing.com on May 5, 2021.