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What if procrastination has been working exactly as intended? Not as a character flaw, not as laziness, but as a solution you invented for a problem you were more afraid of than the thing you kept putting off. That reframe changes everything about how you approach it.Jon Acuff ha ...  Show more

The anxiety you carry, the way you go silent in conflict, the relentless drive that never quite feels like enough, these didn't start with you. They started much earlier, in relationships and environments your body learned to survive before you had words for any of it. And accord ...  Show more

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Simple tools you can knit into your life both for when you're actively freaking out, and for preventing futu ...

After today, you will never think about stress the same way again.

You’ll learn exactly what to do to take control of your stress, stay calm under pressure, and find instant relief.

Harvard’s Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is here today to explain stress and how it relates to ...

We think of stress as “bad” for you, but what if some forms of stress could actually help us grow and change for the better? On today’s episode Forrest and Dr. Rick are joined by Dr. Elissa Epel, a psychologist and leading stress researcher, to explore the science behind the stre ...  Show more

Ahhhhh! STRESS. If you've never been stressed out you are either, not human, or you've achieved an extreme level of enlightenment and your brain should be studied in a lab. Stress is a natural survival response from millions of years of evolution. It serves us well in some situat ...  Show more