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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
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 hangry.
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 Tate 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 might be feeling really tense and scowling, and my behavior might be to send an aggressive text or say something.
Really rude or, yeah, 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 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 mind, your body, and your behavior.
You'll pick what works for you depending on what your stress feels like and how it's showing up.