
Beating Burnout with Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel
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Crying Doesn't Solve Stress
If it is not a strategy that works for you, find another strategy. Almost no strategy works for both of us. We have very little overlap in what's effective for us. So try on the possibility of creating a context to allow crying to happen if it wants to. Rarely sometimes, but rarely does crying ever actually deal with the thing that caused the stress. But boy, can it do a good job of completing the stress response cycle? It lets your body release all the stuff that got activated in your body so that you can be calm enough actually to address the thing that happened.
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