![]() In today’s world, we can’t always react how we’d like to, and this equates to anxiety, depression, betraying ourselves, emotional avoidance, self-medicating, addiction, emotional eating, eating disorders, disconnection from loved ones, and/or any number of unhealthy coping mechanisms. ![]() ![]() Now, modern day stressors like a bottomless To-Do List or a conflict at work are not the same sorts of life-threatening stressors they used to be when our only goal as a species was survival, but the body responds the same way: fight, flight, or freeze. When the body perceives a threat, there are physiological reactions: the heart rate increases, blood flow spikes, stress hormones like adrenaline are released, and the body becomes poised to respond in one of three ways: fight, flight, or freeze. Here’s what I learned that I would love to share with everyone I know and love:īy now, most of us are familiar with the idea that our sympathetic nervous system is our body’s response to stressors. I found myself reacting aloud, “Yes!,” “That’s right!,” and “Tell me about it!” So, at the next stop, I ordered the book for myself and for my sister. ![]() What these sisters had learned in their research on stress and burnout was remarkable. Nagoski and Nagoski shared a way to understand stress and burnout that I had never encountered and I felt encouraged by their research and recommendations. On a long drive, I was listening to Unlocking Us with Brene Brown and this episode featured sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski, authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. ![]()
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