Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. I hope you are having a great day, getting through

the day, getting through the weight, getting through the month, taking care of yourself.

Remember, we're not trying to live in burnout, so we are focusing on what are we centering in our day,

and we are making sure to carve out some space for joy and pleasure and rest and leisure.

So that's your daily reminder.

Ask your body what it needs instead of just ignoring and pushing through.

All right. We got a great show plan for you though. And I wanted to just open the show by talking about stress and stressors.

Not what we're going to spend the night talking

about. We're going to move into something a little more erratically driven. So stick around for that.

We're going to talk about how to keep arousal front and center. But I just wanted to point

something out. Deeper topic and I'll at some point spend an entire show talking about it. But I

wanted to remind everyone that when we talk about stress and stressors, a lot of times we don't understand the distinction. And we think that

just because we might have taken the weekend or a vacation or a few hours that we've done

the total job of taking care of ourselves. And I want us to really focus on

this whole idea that there's a difference between stress and stressors. Stressors are the things,

the people places things and events that maybe add stress to our lives. And time away from them

doesn't necessarily mean that we've dealt with the stress that's in our body

from those stressors. So just because you're home from work, away from the triggers of the office

doesn't mean the stress is out of your body. It just means the stress triggers are away from you.

Just because the weekends here, again, your way from maybe the stress triggers and causes,

that doesn't mean the stress again is out of your body.

Same thing with vacation.

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