Dr. Tara Narula

And I just thought that's such a beautiful visual image.

If we could just think of our lives that way, that change is inevitable, adversity is inevitable, bad things are going to happen, but we can still emerge as this beautiful creation.

Or to not feel, to just put my head down in the sand and keep going forward without processing what's happened, you know?

Yeah.

Just keep moving.

Yeah, I mean, Mel, it's everywhere, right?

And so the common denominator, and again, the reason it was important for me to talk about this is stress.

So our lives are full of stressful events.

Yes, I am.

Stress in and of itself is not a bad thing.

We all need some stress in our lives.

Why?

Stress can be positive because it can push us.

It can push us to evolve and change.

Okay.

The point is that there's a tipping point where the stress then becomes negative.

One of my favorite professors from Stanford, Robert Sapolsky, wrote a book called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.

And he studies primates and studies the stress response and talks very openly about this idea that our stress response is meant to be a place or a function for us to survive.

So that if we're escaping a lion in the wild, we turn it on.

Our heart rate goes up, our blood pressure goes up, our respiratory rate goes up.