Andrew Russell

Stress is actually...

something we need in our life, and it really helps us to adapt as human beings.

So stress is a good thing, it's got a bad rap, but it gets to a point when it's a bad thing.

When do you know that?

Well, I think the biggest thing is when you feel like life

is a threat or whatever's going in your life is a threat and you go into survival mode and you start to spiral and you feel like you can't control that situation, then you have an issue.

Versus it's stressful, it's challenging, but you're in a mindset that you feel like I can deal with this challenge.

And so that's how you build resilience as a human being is saying, I'm being challenged now.

And I'm going to come up with a strategy to work through that.

You work through it.

You feel better about yourself.

You don't actually have to change the outcome, but the process of working towards the outcome is what really matters when reducing stress.

Tim, I think the biggest, the number one thing,

that I've worked through, but also the research says, is deal with it.

Don't delay it.

Don't ignore it.

And don't push it away.

Because what happens is it just sits in your subconscious.

So although you might not be thinking about it all the time, it is there and it is affecting you at a hormonal level and it's affecting everything in your life.

So just deal with it.