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118 Are there quick and easy ways to manage stress? A: Yes. With guest experts Elisabeth Kristof, Melanie Weller, and Matt Bush

Playing With Fire

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The Importance of Redefining the Terms of Trauma Response

A lot of my clients will overuse the word threat and they start to use it like every threat is an emergency. Like your nervous system is literally wired to perceive threats from your environment externally or internally, it's not gonna stop doing that. Same thing for the word predictability. It can be very overused to say, oh, you're unpredictable right now. I don't know what to expect. So it's kind of like avoiding the extremes. Let's avoid the blanket statements and the definitive always and never kind of things to go among your team.

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