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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I couldn't agree more.
I think that the focus on individual health and individual mental health is
really limiting us from seeing the potential of actually how the big levers, the big effects are about how we help each other, how we connect with each other.
That feeling of safety we're talking about, like we can't fully relax unless we feel at least a bit safer.
is all about social safety.
Do we feel someone has our back?
Do we feel connected?
Is there someone that we can talk to when we feel really in need?
You just described it so well.
It is about our perception of whatever is happening out there in our body.
It's the story we are telling ourselves.
What is our narrative?
If we are seeing and embedding a situation with more threat and more danger than is really there, we are driving...
an excessive and unnecessary stress response.
And that tendency to over-attribute danger, threat, is biologically conserved.
It is our safety response.
So we've got to have a lot of compassion and kindness and humor about the stories we tell.
Because we're just, you know, let's say the majority of us are just
over-exaggerating threat and even unconsciously all the time.
So just asking ourselves, what is the story right now?
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