#358 - Dr Samantha Boardman - Positive Psychology's Lessons For Coping With Stress

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Dr Samantha Boardman is a psychiatrist and an author. Divorces, bankruptcies and moving house are major stresses. But what about the micro-stressors we deal with every day, how much do they contribute to diminishing our wellbeing and what can we do to stop that from happening? Expect to learn which activities studies say are most effective for making you resilient to stress, how to break a downward spiral in your growth, why discomfort is a feature not a bug, how creating a persona can give you confidence and much more... Sponsors: Get £70+ of free upgrades on amazing design work from 99designs by Vistaprint at https://99designs.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 20% discount on the highest quality CBD Products from Pure Sport at https://puresportcbd.com/modernwisdom (use code: MW20) Extra Stuff: Buy Ready For Anything - https://amzn.to/3lS5wpR Follow Samantha on Twitter - https://twitter.com/sambmd Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yes, team, welcome back to the show.
0:02.5	My guest today is Dr Samantha Bordman, she's a psychiatrist and an author.
0:07.5	Devourses, bankruptcies and moving house and major stresses, but what about the micro
0:12.0	stresses we deal with every day?
0:14.2	How much do they contribute to diminishing our wellbeing and what can we do to stop that
0:18.1	from happening?
0:19.1	Today, expect to learn which activities studies say are most effective for making a resilient
0:24.5	to stress?
0:25.6	How to break a downward spiral in your growth, why discomfort is a feature, not a bug,
0:31.2	how creating a persona can give you more confidence and much more.
0:36.4	The bottom line is that most of the stresses that we actually encounter are the small ones.
0:41.0	They're the getting stuck in traffic, the dropping coffee on ourselves and those are
0:44.6	the ones that we actually have control over.
0:47.1	The huge catastrophes, if we were able to get out of their way, we probably would,
0:51.8	but we don't, because we can't.
0:54.2	So we need to make ourselves as resilient as possible by controlling the stresses that
0:58.2	we can.
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