Dr. Zelana Montminy

coming up next on passion struck we're always going to have things that are thrown at us so that's inevitable having the noise of life consume us so the real work is in the micro habits the day-to-day functions that we employ the boundaries that we cultivate around our days and our time in order to choose how to respond to things versus just be super super reactive so most of the time people

have content and information coming at them, it all feels very urgent.

Our brain is in fight or flight.

Someone else's emergency is also ours.

And it becomes very sort of nebulous and contagious, right?

I'm doing great.

So happy to be here.

Thank you for having me.

I love that question.

I think you're referring to my Oprah essay, right?

It was actually extremely powerful.

So we have a collection of moments in our lives that we can point to that were internally gave pause or some sort of transformative element.

And I had just finished lecturing about and talking to the graduate students about burnout and anxiety and

the attention crisis that we're all living in.

And she just looked so hopeless.

And I think that's what stuck with me the most.

And then the echoes that followed.

And she just looked at me because everyone always asks me like, okay, so what's the one thing I need to be doing?

What's the secret?

As if wellness or mental health has this one thing.