Jenny Taitz

What moves me most is research finds even refugees and asylum seekers grappling with being forcibly displaced can improve their mental health by learning strategies similar to ones we'll cover.

If peace of mind is possible in political limbo, it's definitely possible in your daily hustle.

Yet we create fender benders.

Short on money, we shop online.

Big deadline, we bounce between procrastination and perfectionism.

Tired and lonely, we scroll at midnight.

Why?

because when emotions spike, clarity vanishes.

We want relief now, so we turn to habits that hurt or reach for substances like alcohol, cannabis or Xanax that shrink our ability to think when we deserve to be our sharpest.

To bypass suffering, normalize your feelings.

No matter how hard things seem, emotions and urges are waves.

They'll pass without you escaping in ways that undermine you.

You know if you scroll TikTok, you can tear up then smile within seconds.

The problem isn't feeling, it's ruminating, taking a two-minute interaction and replaying it for days, turning stress into a chronic problem.

Ruminating was my specialty before I learned to reset.

And you can, too, with three stress resets to reclaim your resilience.

One, learn to play with your thoughts.

Let's say you just experienced rejection.

That's disappointing enough.

Then your mind has the nerve to send the emotional equivalent of spam, you're going to die alone.