Build Stress Resilience and Support Your Nervous System
The Managing Stress Naturally Workshop is a free, prerecorded workshop created to help adults understand how ongoing stress may affect the nervous system and overall wellness.
Stress is a normal and healthy response to a short-term challenge. When stress continues without enough recovery, however, it may begin to affect your digestion, sleep, energy, mood, pain perception, and other areas of physical and emotional wellness.
That’s why I created this workshop, to help explain how the stress response works and share practical strategies for supporting your nervous system and responding to everyday stress more intentionally.
Watch the Free Managing Stress Naturally Workshop
Watch the prerecorded workshop below at your convenience. Then request the companion Managing Stress Workbook to help you apply what you learn.
Get the Free Managing Stress Naturally Workbook
Could Ongoing Stress Be Affecting How You Feel?
Metabolic Wellness
Ongoing stress may influence appetite, food choices, blood sugar regulation, and other factors involved in metabolic wellness.
Inflammation & Pain Perception
Stress may contribute to muscle tension, fatigue, inflammatory signaling, and increased sensitivity to pain.
Mood, Sleep & Digestion
Stress can affect sleep quality, mood, concentration, digestion, and communication along the gut-brain axis.
What You’ll Learn
Stress 101 – The Basics
The difference between acute & chronic stress, and psychological, environmental, and physical stressors.
The Stress Response
Explore the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, the HPA axis, cortisol, and the stages of the stress response.
The Gut-Brain Axis
Learn how the brain, gut, nervous system, hormones, and immune signaling communicate with one another.
Building Stress Resilience
Discover what stress resilience means and how consistent habits may help you respond to stress more effectively.
Nutrition and Natural Support
Explore how balanced nutrition, selected nutrients, traditionally used herbs, and aromatherapy may complement healthy stress-management practices when appropriate.
Practical Stress-Management Tools
Learn about breathing, movement, mindfulness, meditation, sleep, relaxation, and other strategies you can begin using in everyday life.
Meet Your Instructor
Mara Gerke, CNHP,
Gut Health Nutrition Specialist & Coach, Herbalist, Aromatherapist
I love helping people restore balance and resilience. Managing stress isn’t just a mind thing; it’s about supporting your whole body, creating balance and reducing pain.
The gut and brain are closely connected, and focusing on digestive health is a great way to reduce stress, boost your mood, and improve your overall well-being.
After overcoming CRPS, I know firsthand how chronic stress can amplify pain and how powerful it is to learn how to regulate your nervous system naturally.
The Managing Stress Naturally Workshop focuses on practical tools to help you understand how stress impacts your body and your pain. Learn how to build lasting resilience through nutrition, lifestyle, and mindset shifts.
I share natural strategies that can help you calm your nervous system, strengthen your gut-brain connection, and bring more peace, clarity, and energy into your daily life.
Your Managing Stress Workbook Is Included
The companion workbook includes:
- A review of your current stressors
- Exercises to explore how stress may be affecting you
- Stress-response and resilience activities
- Nutrition and lifestyle considerations
- Breathing, mindfulness, and relaxation practices
- Herbal and aromatherapy education
- A practical action plan
Complete the workbook while watching the Managing Stress Naturally Workshop or return to the exercises at your own pace.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
The free Managing Stress Naturally Workshop is a helpful place to learn the foundations of how the body manages and reacts to stress.
When you’re ready for more structure, explore the 8-Week Nervous System Reset for a focused, step-by-step approach to supporting your nervous system —or begin with The Healthy Habits Challenge to build a stronger foundation through eight practical daily habits.