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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

298 - Eustress, or Are You a Good Stress or a Bad Stress?

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For this Multiamory episode, we're focusing on stress: the differences between distress and eustress, how stress is actually necessary for quality of life, healthy versus unhealthy stress, effects of bad stress, and how to balance stress levels to lead happier lives.Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community.Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4

I don't want anyone to feel like we're implying that it comes down to this like individual moral sense of do you personally as an individual think your stress is healthy or unhealthy and that's going to be the thing that either dams you or blesses you for the rest of your life on a macro cultural level and micro cultural level we can be really influenced by these things.

0:19.1

Like there's a lot of cultures that are non-Western, non-American cultures where the response to stress is maybe a little bit more feeling

0:25.8

like stress is going to be a predictable part of life and an understandable part of life

0:30.3

and it's going to happen versus I do think that American and to a certain

0:34.6

extent other Western cultures have received more of this baggage of you need to be

0:40.6

working all the time and that's how you are good and you shouldn't really be stressed about that and it shouldn't really be bad and your life should be comfortable and if you're doing things right you'll be both working all the time

0:53.6

and also not stressed about it I mean think about it it's like everyone tells you

0:56.9

growing up if you find your dream job you're never going to work a day in your life

1:01.3

which is like not true even if you do your dream job.

1:04.0

Welcome to the multi-amory podcast.

1:06.0

I'm Jace.

1:07.0

I'm Emily.

1:08.0

And I'm Dedicher.

1:09.0

We believe in looking to the future of relationships,

1:12.0

not maintaining the status quo of the past.

1:14.4

So whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships

1:20.4

differently, we see you and we're here for you. For some made up for myself to fit.

1:37.0

On this episode of the Multie Emory Podcast,

1:42.0

we're talking about the concept of Eustress,

1:45.0

the idea that not all stress is bad,

1:48.0

and in fact, stress is actually necessary for your quality of life.

1:52.0

In this episode, we're exploring the difference

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