131: Training Your Brain & Body to Thrive During Stress + Recover from Trauma with Dr. Liz Stanley
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you're going to learn how to train your body and your brain to thrive during stress, recover from trauma, and find resilience every day.
Dr. Elizabeth Stanley talks about how to widen your window for stress tolerance, how stress and trauma affect the mind, body, and soul, and how to discharge stress to get out of the trauma loop.
We also hear about how mindfulness plays into this whole theme and more on building a core of resilience.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Feel Good Effect. In this episode, you're going to learn how to train your |
| 0:05.0 | body and your brain to thrive during stress, recover from trauma, and find resilience every day. |
| 0:12.9 | This is a good one. Let's make it happen. |
| 0:18.3 | Welcome to the Feel Good Effect. I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I help people find time and create space in their lives for what matters most by sharing simplified strategies for wellness. This podcast is all about real talk, real wellness, and unpacking what it really means to be healthy. |
| 0:41.0 | Well, hey, feel good fam. I'm so glad you're here. In this episode, you're going to learn |
| 0:46.2 | how to train your brain and your body to thrive during stress, recover from trauma, |
| 0:52.2 | and really get into the science of resilience. |
| 0:55.9 | Our guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, Ph.D. |
| 1:00.1 | She's an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University |
| 1:04.5 | and the creator of mindfulness-based mind fitness training or M-FET, |
| 1:09.5 | which has been taught to thousands in civilian and military |
| 1:12.9 | high stress environments. MFIT research has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, MPR, Time |
| 1:20.2 | Magazine, and many other places. She's an award-winning author and U.S. Army veteran with service |
| 1:27.4 | in Asia and Europe and holds degrees from Yale, Harvard author and U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe and holds degrees |
| 1:30.0 | from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. So kind of a big deal. She's also a certified practitioner of |
| 1:36.3 | somatic experiencing a body-based trauma therapy. In this episode, we're talking about her new |
| 1:43.0 | book, widen the windows. So we're going to explain |
| 1:45.9 | what that means. So basically how to widen your window for stress toleration, whether you're |
| 1:51.8 | somebody who is an extremely high stress environment. So for example, somebody who is a military |
| 1:57.7 | veteran, or you just experienced the everyday stress of life. She provides a beautiful |
| 2:02.8 | definition of trauma. So if that's the word you've been hearing popping up more lately, I know I have |
| 2:07.6 | really interesting and important to understand the difference between stress and trauma and how |
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