IT’S NOT THE STRESS YOU FEEL, IT’S THE STRESS YOU AVOID - Kelly McGonigal, PhD on rewiring your brain live with, learn from, and even appreciate stress
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Ep 58. Not all stress is bad stress.
We’ve been taught to avoid and reduce stress as much as we possibly can—but maybe we’ve been approaching it all wrong. What if we could reframe the stress life throws at us into an opportunity for change or growth or connection?
This week’s guest, Kelly McGonigal, PhD is a bestselling author, psychologist, and educator, who’s here to help us find the upside of stress. She’s teaching us how stress affects our body, how our mindset can help influence that effect, and how we can harness our stress responses for good. Let’s get juicy!
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| 0:00.0 | I wish I could put into words how ecstatic and proud I am of season three so far. I feel like the |
| 0:07.6 | stars have just aligned and somehow we've been blessed with some incredible guests that are giving |
| 0:13.1 | us the most tangible and accessible and actionable information I think that we've talked about |
| 0:17.8 | in three seasons. And I've been hearing from a lot of you guys on Instagram and in the reviews. |
| 0:22.6 | And I just wanted to say thank you so much because it means the world to our tiny little |
| 0:26.9 | team to know that you guys are getting just as much value out of it as we are on the production |
| 0:31.9 | side. Like we are so excited to edit each and every episode because I feel like they just |
| 0:36.4 | keep getting better and better. |
| 0:38.3 | And today's episode is no different. |
| 0:41.3 | We have a highly accomplished and whip smart author, Kelly McGonigle, PhD on today, |
| 0:46.3 | talking about one of the most interesting books I've ever read in my life, The Upside of Stress. |
| 0:52.3 | Kelly blew my mind when I spoke to her. I think this was the gidiest I've |
| 0:56.6 | ever been in a podcast episode. I was nerding out because I love the psychology side of things. |
| 1:02.0 | And I think that there's so much that we can do for our bodies and our biochemistry and our |
| 1:07.2 | inflammation levels by changing our minds, by changing the way that we think about our |
| 1:12.1 | lives and the stressors that we face. And that's exactly what Kelly talks about. Kelly says in this |
| 1:17.3 | episode that stress is not necessarily the monster that we've been taught it is, right? Because all you |
| 1:22.7 | hear is stress causes disease. Stress is the root of every illness. And essentially it is, right? |
| 1:29.3 | But what if you could change your mind and flip the script on that monster? |
| 1:34.9 | Kelly reframes everything that we ever thought we knew today by teaching us that stress is actually something that arises in you when something that you care about is at stake. |
| 1:44.0 | She says stress helps you |
| 1:45.8 | respond to life. It helps you respond to a moment that matters. Stress drives presence. It helps |
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