Amy Nicholson
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471 appearances
63 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Doesn't it seem, though, that, as you pointed out, like it could be your job or it could be some event in your life that's causing you stress, but you're creating the stress, not the event. The event is the event. It's how you deal with it.
And the idea of when people talk about, oh, I'm so stressed, or this is so stressful, I mean, they're never talking about the good stress. They're always talking about what they perceive to be harmful stress, that this is too much, that I can't deal with this, this is really hard. It isn't like, wow, this is great stress.
No one uses that term and says, God, I'm so stressed today, and isn't it wonderful?
So can you take some real life examples? Because we're talking about the stress in response to something going on in life. Let's add in the things that are going on so we get real examples rather than talking in the abstract of here's something that happens and here's how you handle it or maybe how you don't handle it well so we get a better sense of what you're talking about.
But going back to your example of being stuck in a work situation,
So it's not a matter of trying to reframe bad stress into good stress. It sounds like you're talking about you're going to have bad stress and you do what you do with that. The trick is to find the good stress because that will help protect you from those bad stressful things.
And so how do you create good stress in your life? I mean, is it the, that's why I guess what I'm not understanding is like, is it the way you respond to situations or do you go out and seek situations, go get on a roller coaster because that'll give you good, I'm not sure how you bring this into your life.
So I get that those have health benefits to them, but I guess I'm not seeing how this relates to stress. I see there are health benefits, but how does reducing when I eat relate it to stress?
Well, what about the managing of bad stress? Is that something not to concern yourself with? Again, it seems like these are two very different things, good stress and bad stress. You're focused on the good stress, but is there something to managing your bad stress?
Isn't that the truth? Is this fairly new research? Because, you know, generally you hear when people talk about being healthy, you know, it's movement. Take a walk after dinner. It isn't running up the stairs three times a day. It's much more lighter and fluffier.
Lastly, and maybe you've already talked about this, but I want to maybe talk about it in a more concentrated... The benefits of the good stress... our health benefits and other benefits, but talk specifically about how they mitigate the bad stress.
Well, you know, I've never heard anyone explain stress this way, and it certainly has given me a much better understanding of what it is, what it does, and maybe how to even make it work for you. Dr. Sharon Berquist has been my guest. She is an award-winning physician and author of the book, The Stress Paradox, Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier.
And there is a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Sharon, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for being here.
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I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.
We come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits.
So if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.
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