This April, which is Stress Awareness Month, we read When the Body Says No and it’s safe to say it was a fitting choice. In the book, Gabor Maté draws on his years of experience working as a GP in Canada and the many patients he’s seen, alongside a body of evidence from countless studies in the field of Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI for short) which back up the anecdotal stories he shares. In very basic terms, PNI is the idea that your psychological state and your immune system are not separate and unrelated, instead the former has a significant impact on the latter. As someone who seems to live in a constant state of stress, emotional upset, and anxiety, my increasing reaction as I got through each chapter was ‘I am so screwed’.