Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore

anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.

Hello, how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as together

we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural peace and

calm.

In today's episode, I'm talking to you about understanding your stress response and

specifically how your brain is reacting to the threats.

The stress response is an actual physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived

threat or challenge.

And the key word here is perceived because that doesn't mean it's actually happening

in front of you or actually happening at all.

It just means that you are perceiving the threat or challenge.

And again, this is also known as the fight or flight response because it prepares the

body to either confront the threat or escape from it.

The stress response involves the release of hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline,

which increase our heart rate, increase our blood pressure and breathing rate, all at

the same time while it's redirecting blood flow to the muscles and brain.

And the reason we need to revisit this idea, again, most of you have heard me talk about

this in other episodes or you've read about it, it's really important to remind ourselves

that this is actually what's happening because we forget and we get scared, we get a feeling,

we get an increased heart rate or sweaty palms or whatever and we freak out.

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