Kelly McGonigal

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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

So of course, you can always find studies showing that stressful life circumstances are bad for your health.

So if you lose your job, if you get divorced,

Um, if you experienced trauma, could that increase your risk of physical health problems, diseases, new mental health challenges?

Yes.

But there are all of these studies showing that if you are someone who regularly volunteers or you have a caregiving role that is not in and of itself, a major source of stress.

I mean, there are caregiving roles that are enormously stressful, but if you're able to give care in a way that is not that extreme.

that those events don't take the same toll on your physical or mental health.

There are studies showing that literally you can get fired or get divorced and you would expect it to cause all sorts of problems for your health and your mental health.

And that trend or that effect disappears from the population of people who are regularly giving back to their communities or providing care to others.

So there is lots of great research.

And then the third thing I will say is we and I were talking about this before we went live is rescue an animal.

Because one of the only things that can really help, again, beyond like get on the right antidepressant medication if that's for you.

But one of the only things that you can choose in any given moment that is incredibly helpful for depression or grief or trauma is to have a relationship with an animal who depends on you.

and who you can have that success experience of providing the care that they need.

And actually, in many of my books, I've written about research studies done with groups of people who are healed through their relationships of providing care to animals, including people who experienced enormous childhood trauma and came to view themselves as essentially broken or unlovable, rejected.

And then to then go out and adopt or train an animal who was going to be euthanized because it was violent or it was rejected or it was abandoned.

And that you, you know, in providing that care and you see the enormous beauty and wonder in that animal and they see it in you.

Wow.

That's your three tips.

So I can tell you what my own research has looked at in the past decade is meditation.

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