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Hey everybody, it's Mariel. We had an episode recently about what to do in the moment when you are feeling completely

overwhelmed.

You need to stop the racing thoughts and slow. when you are feeling completely overwhelmed.

You need to stop the racing thoughts

and slow your racing heartbeat.

But one thing we learned was that while it's really important

to ground yourself in these moments,

that's not where the work ends.

Because if you're constantly having these days where your fight-or-flight response is triggered,

there's probably a reason, some underlying cause of your stress.

It could be your health or the health of someone you love. It could be a

relationship that's falling apart or the fact that you can't pay rent or a fear for your safety.

These are things that never quite go away

so that fight or flight response is always on

at a slow hum in the background.

That's Dr. Aditi Naurukar.

She's an internal medicine physician at Harvard,

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