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Not Another Anxiety Show

Ep 116. Is Stress Inherently Bad?

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8655 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Kelli and Erica share recent research and personal experience to explore whether or not stress is as inherently bad as originally believed. 

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Disclaimer: Hopefully you find the information in this podcast helpful but it is not intended to replace medical advice and should not be used as such.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Kelly. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, I've gone on maternity leave a bit early.

0:07.7

The twins will be here any day now. For the next few weeks, it will be challenging to come up with a new

0:13.0

podcast episode every week, so we're going to be sprinkling in a few oldies but goodies here and there.

0:19.1

I'm looking forward to getting back to normal and bringing

0:21.6

you new content every week, but for now, enjoy one of my favorite oldies.

0:44.1

Hey guys, welcome to episode 12 of Not Another Anxiety Show.

0:49.9

I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and per usual, I have the oh-so-talented writer and doula from the babybroad.com, Erica Latham joining me today to talk a little bit about whether or not

0:55.4

stress is inherently bad for us.

0:59.8

Hey.

1:01.9

That's what I have for you.

1:05.0

My really great intro.

1:07.0

I love this.

1:07.8

I'm so excited for this because this changed.

1:10.2

This was a game changer for me.

1:11.9

Yeah. Stress gets a pretty bad rap, right? Avoid it at all costs. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. That's what kept me in bed for weeks.

1:19.5

Yeah. When you were going through health anxiety, was it, oh gosh, I'm stressed. I'm going to give myself a heart attack.

1:24.9

Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. because that's what we hear.

1:28.1

You know, stress means that people have stress heart attacks, people drop dead when they, you know,

1:33.5

you know, they're dealing with something stressful at work.

1:35.8

You know, I'm so stressed out that.

1:37.1

And even, you know, the chronic stress response with panic attacks and, you know, we just hear about it so much.

1:42.3

It gets such a bad rap. And not that those

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