Dr. Jenny Taitz

So this combination of believing that like stress is adaptive, like stress is the price of a meaningful life.

If you had no stress, you would probably

be apathetic and have nothing going on in your life.

And also that your body's stress response is helpful.

Like literally even there's a famous article that I like about turning your knots into bows, like literally seeing like knots in your stomach.

It's like bows, like before you're going into the GRE, like this is a sign that I'm doing well.

My stomach is like, you know, revving up my body to perform.

Like this is not like, oh my gosh, like I'm going to fail because my stomach is growling.

No, this is like a sign that you're going to do well.

If you can reframe stress more positively, especially when it's in line with what matters to you and you can accept wholeheartedly your body's stress response, the combination of doing those two things and interventions that teach those two practices in like 30 minutes can actually correlate with reducing cortisol, reducing mental health challenges and

Also narrow achievement gaps.

Like this is like a 30 minute intervention, like four years later can correlate with first generation college students actually graduating college.

And so this isn't just like a nice kind of reframe.

It translates into, again, that behavioral piece of choosing behaviors and also changing the way you see yourself in the way and the course of your life.

Like the goal of resetting stress is not to just feel better in this moment.

It's to live the life that you want to live.

Yeah.

Chris, I mean, can I ask what you thought when you walked into the preschool?

Like you said, you kind of just alluded to some like I have to make a good impression.

And what would be like a more helpful way to approach the situation?