170. Stress and Stress Relief 101 with Shulamit Ber Levtov

Second Breaks

IN THIS EPISODE:

• What stress really is and how our body responds to stress
• Chronic vs Acute stress
• Three principles of stress relief
• Why Shula prefers to talk about principles rather than specific techniques for stress relief
• Examples of what these principles may look like in practice

ABOUT MY GUEST:

Shulamit (Shula) Ber Levtov is a mindset and resilience consultant. She typically works with women entrepreneurs – and using her background as a trauma therapist, she helps her clients stay sane and care for their emotional health as they ride the emotional rollercoaster of running a business.

But more relevant to our conversation about stress – Shula has been researching and studying stress and stress management, as part of her book project. And I’ve been reading her work on her website around these topics and found them to be really insightful.

In our conversation, Shula gave a very simple explanation of what stress really means — and how our bodies respond to stress. We dove into the principles of stress relief – and although we talked examples of how these principles may look in practice – Shula emphasized that there’s no one set of cookie-cutter techniques. And as she and I ran through the specific examples, I understood why it’s really important to come up with our own set of techniques.

For all the links and show notes, head on over to http://secondbreaks.com