Stop Fighting Your Stress Response: 5 Tools for Acute Stress That Actually Work

Stress doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it lands before your mind has caught up with your body. Heart rate climbing, thinking narrowing, something tightening in your chest. And the instinct most of us follow in that moment, trying to make it stop, may be the very thing that keeps it going.

This episode is part of our ongoing series on stress, with this installment focused specifically on acute stress: what it is, why it's not a malfunction, and what actually helps when you're in the middle of it. Mark and Miko explore five evidence-informed tools that work with the biology of acute stress rather than against it, including one that surprises almost everyone the first time they hear it.

The core reframe here is simple and worth sitting with: the stress response isn't asking to be defeated. It's asking to be completed.

Hosted by Mark J. Kaylor and Miko Moon. 

 

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