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Jun 2024
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160. Managing Stress for Students - with...

WILLIAM WADSWORTH
About this episode

In the second part of this mini-series on finding calm in your academic journey, we’re exploring anxiety and managing stress for students.

Our guest today, Heather Lillico, is a holistic nutritionist and a yoga and meditation instructor. Heather talks about her own very relatable struggles with anxiety during her academic career, as well as offering a wealth of practical, actionable advice on how to reduce your stress and anxiety with a holistic approach.

Heather guides us through her three-pillar system for tackling stress: firstly, the simple changes we can make to our nutrition to improve our brain health, followed by the many benefits to our mental health that come from introducing yoga and meditation into our routines. 

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Discover more about Heather here:

Visit her website: >> https://www.heatherlillico.com

Or join her community on the Cultivating Calm app: >> https://www.heatherlillico.com/getcalm

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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.
 
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Podcast edited by Kerri Edinburgh.

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