Why You Can Handle So Stress but Struggle to Slow Down
I used to think I was really good at handling stress. I had no other point of reference. Stress was basically my baseline, so that's all I ever knew how to operate from. Pressure, urgency, working harder, training, controlling, avoiding, scrolling, staying busy, then eventually crashing and doing it all over again. In this episode, I break down what stress actually is, how our nervous system develops its relationship with stress through childhood, co-regulation, conditioning, and repetition, and why some of the coping mechanisms that once helped us can eventually keep us stuck. I talk about…
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