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You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.

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

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