
316: How to Raise Mentally Strong Children, Plus Why Self-Care is Crucial for Good Parenting | Caroline Leaf, PhD
The Genius Life
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The Value of Hormones
Hormesis is the low dose stress that actually makes you stronger, more resilient. When we engage in exercise or a sauna session or a cold plunge, like it's a stress on the body, but it makes you on the other side of that stress, you come out stronger. And so yeah, you have to you can't deprive your your children of these sources of social hormesis. If you don't if you just get a child only have good experiences when they do have the first sad experience, they will crash.
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