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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

You ever just get completely overwhelmed.

The phone is ringing non-stop.

You've got dozens of unread emails just from today. Your kids are

fighting over a toy. You open the mail and you've got a huge unexpected bill from

the doctor's office. Oh and you're angry so that doesn't help anything. The stress, you know,

sometimes it just reaches a fever pitch that can feel terrible in our bodies.

For some people, it's very physical.

Jenny Tate is a clinical psychologist and she says stress also shows up in our thoughts and our behaviors.

So if I'm feeling really angry that usually includes some sort of judgment of that was really unfair.

In my body I may be feeling really tense and scowling and my behavior might be to send an aggressive

text or say something really rude or yell.

In these moments when we're overextended, it's hard to carve out a path forward.

Jenny would like you to try something though, called a stress reset.

Stress resets are quick ways to improve how you feel in minutes and that allows you ultimately

to do things that will help you solve problems rather than make things so much worse for yourself.

Jenny wrote a book called Stress Resets, How to Sothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes.

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