Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I'm your host Corey mascara and in today's episode we're going to talk about two different kinds of stress

More to come on that in a moment also before we go into it just know you may hear some fireworks in the background

I am recording this on the 4th of July

All right before we get into this episode let's settle in together with the sound of the bells

Okay, so the common narrative is often that stress is bad and

It's leading to health issues leading to burnout the more we can reduce stress the better

But that is a bit simplistic and I'm sure if you've really if you've really decided to look at your own experience and

And explore, you know, where what has been your experience of stress over the years has it been useful has it been a

hindrance in different ways you'd probably come up with different responses

There have been times where stress has certainly caused a lot of suffering and pain and you've had a strong desire to reduce stress

But other times where stress has perhaps served you positively or has felt like a motivating force or has been something that helped you grow

Then this is where we get into the distinction of two different kinds of stress that is you stress

EU STR ESS and

Distress DIS TRE S S U stress versus distress

So you stress is a certain kind of stress

That can be helpful for us can be a form of motivation for growth

Can be that extra activation that we might feel that gets us to maybe start working on that project or

Feel a little

Motivated to get going with something and work a little harder and

Apply ourselves that much more and maybe gives us a bit of a cognitive enhancement

This compared with distress, which we know to feel more overwhelming

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