Understanding your stress response style is important because the way you react to everyday stressors has been shown to have long-term implications for your physical and mental health. How you ...

We all know that stress can have a deep connection to our physical well-being. It turns out your body could actually be trying to send you a message through your sleep habits. As you can imagine ...

In my 2022 book, The Bullied Brain, I explore how the bullying and abuse cycle has at its core a stress response. When the brain, nervous system, and body feel seriously threatened, they often ...

“Our go-to stress response is an attempt to establish safety through social engagement,” she says. After all, at a basic level, we’re a tribal society, and there’s strength in number ...

Huberman terms it the “psychological sigh,” and promises that with it you can hijack your body’s stress response and instantly turn off that panicky feeling of mounting stress we all dread.

The Nagoski sisters recommend three ways to complete the stress response cycle by engaging in activities that mimic what our primal selves would do when they experienced a threat. Any one of these ...

This stress response is what enables us to quickly adapt to danger or a shift in conditions. But if this response – which is essential for survival – gets out of control and becomes a permanent state, ...