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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

You ever just get completely overwhelmed?

The phone is ringing nonstop.

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 hangary, 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 Tates 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 Soothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes.

And on this episode of Life Kit, we're going to give you a whole bunch of resets for your

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