Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast.

This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast world.

My name is Brooke McCallory.

My name is Ben McCallery.

And welcome to episode four of this

very timely series that we're currently doing whatever season it is, the season of pandemic.

So in today's episode, you speak to someone that has some really, really interesting information regarding stress.

I do, which is...

As I say, through gritted tea.

Yeah.

I do.

I chat today with Ellen Carr, who is a holistic coach and a yoga teacher.

And Ellen wrote to me a couple of weeks ago and introduced herself to me in the work that she does.

And I kind of got digging into her Instagram feed, actually,

and noticed a video that she posted about the importance of understanding our individual stress responses.

And as someone who is stressed at the moment, like I think everyone is, for different reasons

and in different ways, it was really helpful, actually, and very, it seemed very important

to me that this was a conversation that we have, you know, to sort of start to encourage ourselves and

people listening to look at a little more closely at how we respond and react, why that might

be related to a particular kind of stress response we've grown up with or that we, you know,

that is in our nature. And then what we can do to maybe balance some of that out.

And it's just, it's a really, really fascinating and very helpful and kind of empowering conversation

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