Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

We talk a lot about stress, don't we?

Stress is a topic that comes up a lot,

it can feel natural as part of our lives.

I'm so stressed out, stress, stress, stress, or these stress relievers, stress solutions exist.

And I would like to offer something today that could maybe help you see stress a little differently based on just my thought. My one simple

thought around this. Now if you do want a deep dive on stress we have an excellent

interview with Dr Kelly McGonagall.

We speak about her book The Upside of Stress.

Absolutely check out that interview.

But my thoughts today are a little different on this topic.

Sometimes we confuse stress with responsibility.

Right, there's stress, right? A stress response that your body feels to something that's essentially fear-based.

And then there's responsibility.

Natural responsibilities appropriate. there's responsibility, appropriate responsibilities in our life.

Now, of course I'm a business owner now, I have been for over a decade, I've moved countries a lot. I've gone through a divorce. I've had my ups and downs, but just like you, right? But if I were to review my life now as a 40 year old woman.

Gosh, I like saying that now.

I have to say probably the most stress

I experienced in my life was when I was a kid, right, when we didn't have a home, when we were living in domestic violence shelters,

when we were going to court, when my parents were fighting, the police were involved.

Right, that was the most stressful time of my life, right,

up until the age of, I don't know, 10, 11,

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