you will come back much more self-confident, much more focused, and you might realize the thing

that you thought you needed to be doing really in the bigger scheme of things is not the most

important thing that needs to get done. But even if it needs to get done, you're going to be able

to do it in less time now because you're going to be more focused and you're going to be able to

calibrate the amount of effort you give to it to what it really demands. In my experience, when we're

really tired or we've really been pushing as real and we've hit burnout, we don't do a very good

job calibrating the amount of energy and effort to what something really deserves. Let me try and

say that differently. We get caught in this perfectionistic sense of everything needs 110%.

When actually the task may only really need a 60% effort, but when we're really burned out,

we can't really calibrate that to know that doing this at 60% is actually more than enough

and gives us more space. But if we took the break first, we'd see that. And then we actually

can have gotten the break in and still get the thing done. Welcome to Therapist Uncensored.

Building on decades of professional experience, this podcast tackles neurobiology, modern

attachment, and more in an honest way that's helpful in healing humans. Your session begins now

with Dr. Ankelli in Sumeriat.

So many of you across the world have been under an extreme amount of prolonged stress,

especially over the last few years, from COVID to racial tensions and political unrest,

to financial and emotional strain and isolation, and now a war raging in Ukraine.

So many of us have been taught to disconnect from traumatic stress and just power through it,

override the body and keep going. However, this really does have a devastating impact on our bodies

and on our relationships. We are just not meant to live with unprocessed stress and trauma.

So in today's episode, I get a chance to talk with our guest, Dr. Elizabeth Stanley,

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