Ep #17: Stress Response Cycle
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, we’re talking about the biological reasoning for stress and how it naturally works in a cycle. The way we traditionally approach stress, we deny ourselves the release and it eventually builds up. Join with me as we sort out how to complete that stress cycle so we can live more fulfilling and complete lives full of joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Stress. We're all awash with it in this day and age. |
| 0:05.0 | While our actual lives are rarely in danger, |
| 0:08.0 | our bodies can feel like we're about to be killed and eaten. |
| 0:13.0 | And they respond how they're supposed to, |
| 0:15.0 | by flooding our perfect little bodies with gallons of stress hormones |
| 0:19.0 | in a process known as the stress activation response. |
| 0:23.0 | If we don't complete this cycle and signal to our bodies that we're safe, |
| 0:28.0 | and all is well, we can stay stuck in that lousy feeling sympathetic nervous system, our fight or flight, unable to calm ourselves |
| 0:37.4 | or to find the relief we need to deal with the next jerk at work, the next call from |
| 0:42.3 | our barons, the next fight with our loved |
| 0:44.6 | one, the next stressful commute. In this episode I'll be nerding out hard |
| 0:50.0 | about how our bodies respond to stress and I'll be sharing some simple and vital |
| 0:55.3 | ways to calm ourselves on the daily to close the loop on our national chronic stress |
| 1:01.8 | situation. National Chronic Stress Situation. |
| 1:04.4 | You're listening to Feminist Wellness, the only podcast that combines functional medicine, life coaching, |
| 1:10.9 | and feminism to teach smart women how to reclaim their power and |
| 1:14.7 | restore their health. Here's your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine |
| 1:19.8 | expert, herbalist and life Coach, Victoria Albina. |
| 1:26.0 | Hello, hello, my love. |
| 1:28.0 | How are you today? |
| 1:30.0 | I hope you are doing so well. I'm doing really well. I just spent the most |
| 1:36.7 | gorgeous week in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico which is near Albuquerque on |
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