Coaching practices for Magnesium and Anxiety After a Loss

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• Lately the smallest things set me off way out of proportion
• I lie down wound-up and on edge, my mind won’t settle and my body won’t either, and I keep wishing there were something gentle I could take in the evening that takes the edge off both the racing and the not-sleeping at once.
• I’d rather fix this through what I eat than swallow another pill, and I’m wondering whether the on-edge feeling is partly that my everyday meals just aren’t giving my body something it needs to settle.
• Between the coffees, the wine to wind down, and weeks of relentless stress, I feel perpetually frayed
• I drop off fine and then jolt awake at 3am with my thoughts already racing, never quite getting deep restful sleep

Practices that may help

1. Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical
   Magnesium is a cofactor in over 300 enzymatic reactions and acts as a natural NMDA receptor antagonist, dampening glutamate-driven excitatory signaling. A systematic review of RCTs found magnesium supplementation associated with reductions in mild anxiety; Emily Tarleton’s RCT found significant improvements in depression and anxiety scores with 248 mg elemental magnesium daily. Effects appear meaningful when dietary intake is genuinely low, which is common in Western diets. Supplementation is not a treatment for anxiety disorders, but correcting a genuine deficiency is worth considering.
2. Understand why magnesium helps with stress reactivity, not just baseline anxiety
   Magnesium doesn’t tranquilize — it turns down the sensitivity of glutamate-driven excitatory signaling.
   Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical
3. Take magnesium glycinate in the evening
   Magnesium glycinate is the best-tolerated form for nervous system effects — taken at night, it supports both sleep and anxiety.
   Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical
4. Increase dietary magnesium through food first
   Dark leafy greens, pumpkin seeds, legumes, and dark chocolate are reliable dietary magnesium sources.
   Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical
5. Identify and reduce what depletes your magnesium
   Alcohol, caffeine, high sugar, and chronic stress all increase magnesium excretion — your intake target rises when these are present.
   Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical
6. Use magnesium as a sleep-quality lever, not just an anxiety tool
   Magnesium improves sleep onset and duration by supporting GABA activity and reducing cortisol — effects that benefit mood indirectly.
   Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical
7. Choose the right magnesium form for your goal
   Magnesium glycinate for anxiety and sleep; magnesium malate for energy and muscle; magnesium citrate if constipation is also a concern.
   Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical
8. Deliberately engage loss-oriented work
   Set aside dedicated time to directly face the grief — the emotions, the absence, the meaning of the loss.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
9. Havening to soften acute grief activation
   Use gentle touch and brief distraction to lower the physiological intensity of grief surges.
   Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch
10. Engage with the present moment
    Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
    The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical

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