Dr. Elissa Epel

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We are more stressed now than in previous years and decades, but even worse, I think of our youths, like 70% are, you know, reporting stress that they, such extreme stress, they don't know how to manage it. It's interfering with their life. These are really serious red flags. We know what that means biologically.

We are more stressed now than in previous years and decades, but even worse, I think of our youths, like 70% are, you know, reporting stress that they, such extreme stress, they don't know how to manage it. It's interfering with their life. These are really serious red flags. We know what that means biologically.

We are more stressed now than in previous years and decades, but even worse, I think of our youths, like 70% are, you know, reporting stress that they, such extreme stress, they don't know how to manage it. It's interfering with their life. These are really serious red flags. We know what that means biologically.

It's a leading indicator to the wear and tear on our cells, on our brain, the conditions we're always trying to avoid. So it's a serious prescription that we don't have to live each day with this excessive level of stress, which really rules out those states that you've been cultivating, which is the restorative states. And it's a beautiful example you gave how you are consciously changing them.

It's a leading indicator to the wear and tear on our cells, on our brain, the conditions we're always trying to avoid. So it's a serious prescription that we don't have to live each day with this excessive level of stress, which really rules out those states that you've been cultivating, which is the restorative states. And it's a beautiful example you gave how you are consciously changing them.

It's a leading indicator to the wear and tear on our cells, on our brain, the conditions we're always trying to avoid. So it's a serious prescription that we don't have to live each day with this excessive level of stress, which really rules out those states that you've been cultivating, which is the restorative states. And it's a beautiful example you gave how you are consciously changing them.

Because it's not our fault. There's no judgment. We all come out with different levels. That question about why do some people expect negative things to happen, that can't stand ambiguity, that uncertainty feels intolerable, that's part of it. It's partly from how our stress response systems are shaped from all these different influences before our life, including our life starting in the womb.

Because it's not our fault. There's no judgment. We all come out with different levels. That question about why do some people expect negative things to happen, that can't stand ambiguity, that uncertainty feels intolerable, that's part of it. It's partly from how our stress response systems are shaped from all these different influences before our life, including our life starting in the womb.

Because it's not our fault. There's no judgment. We all come out with different levels. That question about why do some people expect negative things to happen, that can't stand ambiguity, that uncertainty feels intolerable, that's part of it. It's partly from how our stress response systems are shaped from all these different influences before our life, including our life starting in the womb.

Yes, so you wanna hear about these mind states.

Yes, so you wanna hear about these mind states.

Yes, so you wanna hear about these mind states.

Yeah, we've been thinking about stress from a different perspective, we and others in the field. So usually we think about how stressed does someone get in the moment? How quickly do they recover? And that's important. We want a quick peak and a quick recovery, and that's a healthy, resilient stress response. But it's not just the action during stress, during events, during tough times.

Yeah, we've been thinking about stress from a different perspective, we and others in the field. So usually we think about how stressed does someone get in the moment? How quickly do they recover? And that's important. We want a quick peak and a quick recovery, and that's a healthy, resilient stress response. But it's not just the action during stress, during events, during tough times.

Yeah, we've been thinking about stress from a different perspective, we and others in the field. So usually we think about how stressed does someone get in the moment? How quickly do they recover? And that's important. We want a quick peak and a quick recovery, and that's a healthy, resilient stress response. But it's not just the action during stress, during events, during tough times.

The question really becomes, what are you carrying in your body and mind when nothing is happening, when you are at rest, or at least you think you are? And that's a window into the unconscious level of stress that we're carrying. So when we talk about uncertainty stress, that's where it is. That's because it's a little bit vague and we can catch that.

The question really becomes, what are you carrying in your body and mind when nothing is happening, when you are at rest, or at least you think you are? And that's a window into the unconscious level of stress that we're carrying. So when we talk about uncertainty stress, that's where it is. That's because it's a little bit vague and we can catch that.