Do You Have Energy Vampires?

Hi There Fitlifer,

This week’s all about energy and emotion—how to protect it, how to regulate it, and how to show up with more of it. Whether it’s your toddler having a full-blown meltdown or you feeling drained after that one conversation (you know the one), your nervous system is constantly working to keep you in balance.

Here’s what we’ll dig into together this week…

• 🧛‍♀️ Energy Vampires: How to Take Your Power Back

• 🌪️ The Most Important Thing When Your Toddler Has Big Emotions

•  🚨Breaking Health News You Need to Know

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🧛‍♀️ Energy Vampires: How to Take Your Power Back

Let’s be real—some things in your life are straight-up stealing your energy. And no, it’s not just a bad night’s sleep or forgetting your coffee. It could be your "harmless" microwave… or that one friend who always leaves you emotionally wiped. 👀

👤 The People Who Drain You:
Energy vampires aren't just in movies—they're real people. You know the type:

• Constant drama 🌀

• Endless complaining 😩

• One-sided convos where it’s always about them

These interactions leave you feeling anxious, depleted, and off. Studies show that chronic emotional stress can tank your immune system and spike cortisol—your body’s stress hormone.

What to do: Set clear boundaries. Limit exposure. And remember—it’s not your job to carry someone else's emotional weight.

🔌 The Devices Sneaking Energy from You
Electronics are energy vampires too—literally. Your TV, phone charger, and kitchen gadgets drain power even when they’re “off.” The U.S. Department of Energy says this “phantom energy” can suck up $100+ a year in wasted electricity.

What to do: Unplug when not in use, or use power strips to cut them off all at once ⚡

🔋 Reclaim Your Energy
You only get so much energy each day—why let people or devices waste it? Protect it like the gold it is.

• Limit emotional drains

• Unplug your tech

• Move your body, breathe deeply, and load up on real food

Your vitality is too precious to leak out unnoticed. Protect your energy, and you’ll have more to give where it actually matters.

🌪️ The Most Important Thing When Your Toddler Has Big Emotions

You’re in the store. Your toddler melts down over the wrong color cup. People stare. Your nervous system spikes. But before you jump into “fix-it” mode, pause. Because the most important thing you can do in that moment? Regulate yourself.

When your toddler is in full emotional chaos, their little brain is offline. No reasoning, no logic—just raw emotion. And here’s the key: they borrow your nervous system to find their way back.

Research shows that a child’s ability to self-regulate is built through co-regulation—they calm down by feeling your calm. Not your words. Not your solutions. Your presence.

So what does that actually look like?

🧘‍♀️ Breathe before you speak. Regulate your own breath to signal safety.
👀 Get low and stay grounded. Eye contact and soft body language go further than correction.
🤝 Acknowledge the emotion. “That really upset you, huh?” helps them feel seen, not shut down.
🫶 Hold the space. You don’t need to fix the feeling—just help them move through it.

Big emotions aren’t bad—they’re a normal part of brain development. And your calm in the storm? That’s what teaches your child how to handle the world.

Remember: they don’t need you to be perfect. They just need you to be present. 🌈

🧑‍💼Your Work Habits May Be Threatening Your Sleep: USF-led study show there are linked to a 37% increase in insomnia symptoms among sedentary workers and a 66% greater risk of needing “catch-up sleep”

🫐Elderberry Juice Shows Benefits for Weight Management: A clinical trial published in the journal Nutrients found that drinking 12 ounces of elderberry juice daily for a week causes positive changes in the gut microbiome and improves glucose tolerance and fat oxidation.

👁️Pupil Size in Sleep Reveals How Memories are Sorted: By studying mice equipped with brain electrodes and tiny eye-tracking cameras, the researchers determined that new memories are being replayed and consolidated when the pupil is contracted during a substage of non-REM sleep.

Your body speaks in whispers long before it screams. Goosebumps, meltdowns, fatigue—they’re all messages. When you learn to listen, you stop fighting your biology and start flowing with it.

So take the hint, make the shift, and keep showing up for yourself and your family with more presence, more clarity, and more power.

Talk soon, Fitlifer. You’ve got this. 💪

— Drew Canole

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