Welcome back to essential oil solutions with Dotaura.

At this time of year, when environmental threats are high, we know that many of you are looking for natural ways to help support your immune system.

So we're excited to bring you the strong all-season education series.

These episodes will be focusing on all the ways you can keep your body

working the best it can so that you're able to stay strong all season. Hi, so great to be here

with you on this Tocera Educational Series. My name is Dr. Danielle Daniel. I am a doctor of

psychology and licensed clinical social worker from San Diego,

California. And I'm going to talk to you a little bit today about stress and the brain, but also

maintaining an atmosphere that is conducive for hope-based thinking. So first I want to talk to you a little

bit about what hope-based thinking is. It's not having an expectation

or a control, right? Expectations will always fail you. And expectations are still a form of

fear. And we all go through feelings and emotions of stress and fear as well as anxiousness

and all these types of things that come up with uncertainty.

The wonderful news about hope and fear is that they both are putting faith into an uncertainty.

And we get to choose, right?

We have this beautiful ability to choose that allows us to navigate between the two and go,

okay, I'm going to choose to have hope

in a situation versus fear in a situation because both are unknowns, so why not choose hope?

So, as I said, expectations will always fail you.

How many of you guys have ever had expectations on your life, right?

I have big time.

And they've always failed me. I'm like, I'm going to be

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