Dr. Elissa Epel
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631 appearances
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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Gazelle is having this full-on threat response, thinking my life is in danger and getting ready to be wounded and have that inflammatory and vasoconstriction response to help with that.
That lion is having that thrilling challenge response of this is gonna be dinner for a week.
I'm going to, you know,
get so much benefit for the whole pride for this.
And so all of these positive emotions and excitement as well.
So completely different responses.
So the way that we can control that is number one, those empowering thoughts, as you said, bringing on
the reminders of why we will survive and how we could do well.
But then also framing the body's response as another positive resource.
My body is excited.
My body is mounting this stress response to help me.
My body knows exactly how to cope with this moment.
That can reinforce that positive challenge response.
Right, right, exactly.
I just love your example also of reappraising at night.
and being able to then more likely to reappraise in the moment.
But we try to load up and go into stressful situations with the resources and the empowering thoughts, but more often than not, our body's gonna respond, especially if we've been exposed to a lot of trauma.
And so then we're gonna be exquisitely sensitive to threat.
So it's not so much about controlling that immediate reaction, it's about what happens next.
When can we recover?
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