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⚡️Hey! I'm Noemie, former Queen of Bad Habits and corporate go-getter turned Certified Health Coach. I help burned-out high achievers ditch unwanted habits, own their wellbeing, and design a life they actually love!

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 5

⚡️Hey! I'm Noemie, former Queen of Bad Habits and corporate go-getter turned Certified Health Coach, Wellbeing Designer & Podcaster.

Now, I help burned out high achievers ditch unwanted habits, own their wellbeing, and design a life they love.

Join us! 🚀

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⚡️Hey! I'm Noemie, former Queen of Bad Habits and corporate go-getter turned Certified Health Coach and podcaster. Now, I help burned out high achievers ditch unwanted habits, own their wellbeing, and...

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Sep 19

Avoid HIIT at night.

It spikes cortisol when you need it to drop.

Train earlier in the day.
Your body needs time to wind down from intense exercise.

Late workouts = wired brain = poor sleep.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Sep 18

Here's what most people get wrong about stress:

Stress and the stressor and the stress ≠ the same thing.

The stressor = the problem (inbox, bills, boss)
The stress = your body's response (tension, racing heart)

You can't always fix the problem, but you can process the stress.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Sep 11

When you can't sleep:

Don't watch the clock. It fuels anxiety. Flip it around.
If you can't sleep, get up. Do something boring in dim light.
Don't try harder to sleep. You can't force it.

Let your body do what it knows how to do.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Sep 10

On paper your life looks fine. But inside? You feel disconnected, flat, unfulfilled.

Here's a powerful question:

If nobody clapped, nobody watched, and nobody gave you a gold star... Would you still be doing what you're doing?

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Sep 2

Burnout lives in the exhaustion phase of stress.

It's not that you're 'broken'. It's that your body never got to complete the cycle.

You're allowed to rest without guilt.
You're allowed to realign.
You're allowed to feel like yourself again.

Recovery is smarter, not tougher.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Sep 2

Overthinking is a habit, not a flaw.

And habits can be unlearned.

Stop trying to control every variable. Stop ruminating and replaying scenarios.

You don't have to fight your mind. Just work with it.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Sep 1

Here's where most people go wrong with overthinking:

They try to think their way out of overthinking.

Which is like trying to tidy your house by throwing everything into one drawer and hoping for the best.

Overthinking isn't solved with more thinking. It's solved with awareness and action.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 29

Overthinking spiralling out of control?

Come back to your senses:

5 things you see
4 things you can touch
3 things you hear
2 things you smell
1 thing you taste

This grounding tool pulls you out of your head and into the NOW.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 26

🌙 Evening wind-down that actually works:

No food 2-3 hours before bed (digestion competes with deep sleep)
Cool your room to 18-20°C (your core temp drops naturally for sleep)
Wind down on purpose: hot shower, journal, stretch, fiction book.
No screens.

Try for a week.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 22

Stress raises cortisol.
Cortisol blocks melatonin.
No melatonin = no sleep.
No sleep = more stress.

It's one of those frustrating loops your body gets stuck in.

Break the cycle: manage stress during the day to sleep better at night.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 BREAK IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

Try the 5-5-10 breathing method:
Inhale for 5 seconds
Hold for 5 seconds
Exhale for 10 seconds

Long exhales activate your "rest & digest" nervous system.

Your body doesn't need you to fix everything.
It just needs to know the danger has passed.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 21

Overthinking 'hack' that actually works:

📆 Schedule your worry.

Give yourself 10 minutes a day to obsess all you want. Set a recurring "Worry Time" in your calendar.

Outside of that? It's a no-rumination zone.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 14

We're messing with the two systems that run sleep:

Sleep Drive = hunger for sleep (driven by adenosine buildup) Circadian Rhythm = your 24-hour internal clock (driven by light/darkness)

Coffee at 4pm + screens at 11pm = confused brain.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 14

Imagine you see a shark while swimming.
You freak out, swim to shore, collapse in the sand, feel relief.
That's a completed stress cycle.

In modern life? The shark never leaves.
Your body stays on high alert.

Complete the cycle: Move. Breathe. Connect. Express.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 12

Popular advice:
“Hustle more. Push harder. Add more to your plate.”

But you don’t need more.
You need to stop.

Stop pretending you’ll change “someday”.
Stop chasing goals that don’t feel like yours.
Stop trying to hate yourself into progress.

Remove what’s draining you.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 11

Sometimes momentum is invisible.
Until it isn't.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 6

We blame ourselves for lacking focus, but the real problem is noise.

Your attention gets hijacked every 47 seconds.
Not from lack of discipline, but from 500 daily context switches.

What if you treated attention like money? Where would you invest it?

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 5

Sleep starts in the morning, not at bedtime.

☀️ Morning sleep hacks:
Wake up at the same time every day (yes, even after rough nights)
Get outside early. Morning sunlight resets your melatonin clock
Cut caffeine by 2pm.

Try it for a week. Watch your sleep shift.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 5

Your brain has a soundtrack running all day.

"I'm not good enough." "What if I fail?" "I should have done better."

🎶 Time to change the playlist!

Replace that old thought with something true AND empowering. Repeat it until it sticks.

New soundtrack, new you.

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 4

3 things I stopped doing

Pretend I’ll change “someday”
Instead, I got honest about what I was really ready for

Chase goals that weren’t mine
Authentic > impressive

Try to hate myself into change
kindness is a better fuel than shame

Try subtracting before you add

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Aug 1

I absolutely LOVED writing this one!

Six months into this writing journey, and I can finally feel things clicking.

Let me know what you think!

https://open.substack.com/pub/unwrittenpotential/p/the-subtraction-method?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
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https://open.substack.com/pub/unwrittenpotential/p/the-subtraction-method?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

Stop these 3 things to design a life you actually love

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Jul 30

Most wellbeing advice tells you to add more.
More habits. More routines. More systems.

But what if the real breakthrough comes from stopping?

Tomorrow, I’ll show you how to feel better, clearer.
By doing less, not more..

If you want to join us, subscribe: https://noemiemooney.kit.com/

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Jul 29

You can't think your way out of stress.

You have to move it through your body.

4 evidence-based ways to complete the stress cycle:

Move (walk, dance, shake)
Connect (hug for 20 seconds, laugh with a friend)
Express (write, sing, scream into a pillow)
Breathe (5-5-10 method)

Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · Jul 28

Alcohol may knock you out faster, but it destroys your deep sleep.

Brutal but true.

You might fall asleep quickly, but you'll wake up feeling unrefreshed.
Your sleep architecture gets completely disrupted.

Limit alcohol if you want quality rest.