Thank you for joining us for episode 476 of Live Happy Now.

If you're feeling more stressed than usual these days, you aren't alone.

But today, we're going to find out why that is and what you can do about it.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Dr. Robin Hanley DeFoe,

an author, psychology instructor, and expert on resiliency.

Her latest book, Stress Wisely, How to Be Well in an Unwell World,

breaks down why the stress of today's fast-paced world is having such a devastating effect on us,

both physically and mentally.

She's here today to explain how we can manage that stress to become more resilient and even

how we can proactively prepare for stress before it happens. Let's have a listen. Robin,

thank you so much for joining me on Live Happy Now. I am thrilled to spend time with you here, so thank you for the invitation.

I'm excited to have you. I received your book Stress Wisely, and it is one of the most profound books on stress I have ever read. The time I've spent with this is really more than I would normally spend with a single book because you approach it in so many

different ways. So before we kind of dig into that, tell the listeners what led you to write this book.

Oh, well, first, thank you for that very generous feedback. So my area of research is around

human resiliency. So I've been really curious. I've been teaching and doing research

almost 20 years now on that area. And one of the kind of through lines, Paula, that just kept

coming to the surface was that persons who were able to like work with their stress systems,

like people who had strategies to work with their stress system, they were so better positioned to be able to manage life

when things went off the rails or when stressors became really apparent. And so as I was doing

this work on resiliency, I just really felt that calling to be able to say, hey, we got to shine

some light and spend some good intention about understanding our nervous

system because that's really going to unlock how we can really, truly be well.

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