Dr. Elissa Epel

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631 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 23 Jun

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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee · The Science of Deep Rest: How Relaxation Calms Stress & Slows Ageing with Dr Elissa Epel #668 · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

They also came out with less early excess weight in the babies too.

It could be that the moms were then using these stress-resilient skills as their parenting in those early months when things are so stressful.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And really the culture, the beliefs, the common values, that is the most important lever in determining, are we a healthy country or a sick country?

And there is good data now that the shorter work day, the shorter work week can be just as profitable.

and everyone's happier and healthier.

And so the more those studies come out, I think the more businesses will stop this thinking of time as so linear with profit and understanding that human potential and wellbeing is the real resource to invest in.

There's a large literature on positive psychology showing that

there are many things we can do to boost our positive emotion.

And that actually is a shortcut to reducing stress.

Boosting positive affect in healthy ways makes us feel stress less.

It makes us perceive things as less stressful.

And so this is this huge opportunity to boost our wellbeing without focusing on symptoms of stress and depression.

In one study, we decided to test whether these short behaviors that produce bursts of positive affect would produce additive effects over the week.

And would they really increase deep well-being, the purpose and meaning and greater intimacy and relationships that people can feel?

We call that emotional well-being.

And that's...

Almost independent of feelings of stress and depression, we can have flourishing even when we're suffering and struggling with stressful situations or chronic illness or intermittent depression.

So we want to boost and focus on these positive aspects of life.

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