March 4, 2025 • 29 mins
What if stress isn't just a silent killer but also a sneaky shapeshifter, impacting every corner of our lives? Join us as we unpack the intricate relationship between stress and mental health, exploring how different types of stress, from the sudden acute stress to the lingering chronic stress, infiltrate both mind and body. Through personal stories and shared struggles, we explore how stress often masquerades as other health issues, undermining our well-being in ways we might not even suspect.
We share insights on how neglecting minor symptoms like headaches or fatigue can escalate into bigger health concerns and how essential it is to recognize these signs early. By discussing our own journeys, we underscore the value of slowing down, delegating, and leaning on those around us, including the divine wisdom and resources offered by God and our communities. Our conversation aims to empower listeners to acknowledge their limits, encouraging reliance on support systems to maintain a healthier, balanced life.
Packed with practical tips, the episode offers strategies for managing stress through effective time management, self-care, and setting boundaries. From mindfulness meditation to spa visits at World Springs, we cover a range of techniques to help lower cortisol levels and boost well-being. With these tools in your arsenal, you're encouraged to treat your body as a temple, nurture supportive relationships, and maintain open communication with loved ones, ultimately guiding you towards a more balanced and fulfilling life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you ever had a headache or a tough day and
noticed that your stomach was inknots?
That isn't just happening.
That is your body letting youknow about stress.
So stress and mental health areboth physically connected, and
so today, what we want to do wasdive into how stress impacts
not only the body, but also themind as well.
(00:21):
So let's hop right in what ishome care how do I navigate
health care?
How do I navigate?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
healthcare.
What do I do when I feel downand depressed?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm stressed.
Am I enough?
What can I do?
What is this going to cost?
All right, so stress.
What is stress to you?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Stress to me is life.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Very much.
They say life be life andstress is life.
Stress is yeah, yeah, very much.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
They say life be life and stress is life.
Stress is things that happensin life.
You know it can be minute, itcan be yeah, it can be anything
but things that you typicallyworry about.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Right, right.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They can cause stress .
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Right.
So just overall, I have twodefinitions here.
The first one is acute stress.
So acute stress is short termstress that occurs in response
to immediate challenges orthreats, such as meeting a
deadline or narrowly avoiding anaccident, and typically
resolves once the situation isover, like just going throughout
day that your day, goingthroughout your week, you're hit
(01:19):
with acute stress.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
momentary stress, okay, temporary stress working
right uh, your job havedeadlines, uh, you, uh.
You have co-workers right thatyou have to deal with, right,
the co-workers dealing with life, you dealing with life y'all
come together one place to get ajob done.
That's stress, right, right,not only that after work, now
you got the managed family right.
You may have kids, you may havea love when you're life y'all
come together one place to get ajob done.
That's stress, right, right.
Not only that after work, nowyou got the managed family right
.
You may have kids, you may havea love when you're taken care
(01:49):
of.
You may have something that youwant to do for yourself that
you're not able to do.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That can bring on stress, and so it's not a.
It's not a matter of if youwill be stressed.
It's a matter when, like, everymoment can be a stressful moment
for someone, so you willencounter stress at some point
in time but then there's alsochronic stress, which is a
long-term, persistent stresscaused by ongoing issues like
financial problems or anunhealthy work environment,
(02:16):
which can negatively impactphysical and mental health over
time.
So you talked about like thatwork environment, right?
So not only do you have to meetdeadlines, which could be just
a momentary, momentary stress,but also, if you don't like your
work environment or the peoplethat you work with, or your boss
is not awesome and you justhate what you're doing, that's
(02:37):
an overall stress that you willcontinue to feel daily, lifelong
, right?
So it's not like it's going togo away, that stress that you're
holding onto, that you likelydon't even know that you're
holding onto?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Or what if you?
Maybe you like the job, maybeyou like the environment?
But what if you have somethingdeep inside of you that's
calling you to do somethingbigger?
Or greater but you cannot makethat change because this job
right now is paying the bills.
So your calling your passion isis is dealing with you on the
(03:08):
inside but yeah uh, the billsare dealing with you like no way
, because you're preaching.
I didn't even think about howstressful ambition and dreams
could be yes, yes, yes that's,that's wild, I didn't so I, I,
you know, I, I know a little bitpart of my story later.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
But, but that's crazy .
So yeah, ambitions and dreamscould be be stressful as well.
They're not inherently bad.
Those are bad things.
But, you live in the day to dayof this is my life.
Now this is where I want to be,and that stress between the two
.
But also we have things in ourbody inherently that God gifted
us, like our fight or flight.
That is there to protect thosethings, like protect us against
(03:49):
stress.
But sometimes if our fight orflight is prolonged due to the
amount of stress that we have orhow we're living our lifestyle,
it can actually be harmful tous.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So it can put you in a dangerous situation because
you're not.
Hey, you can be in a situationI don't know what that may be on
the side of a rope putting on atire on the car or your car
broke down, but in thatsituation you're not able to
detect that maybe I need tostand on this side of the road
because of these other carscoming, because you can't sense
(04:21):
or feel that danger, because ofthe stress of the moment yes,
and it has suppressed you yeahthat's crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So I think overall we can see that stress doesn't
just affect like just our mindbecause that's what we think
inherently like.
If I'm stressed it's, it'sgoing to be me thinking or me
doing something it's not justthat, so like it affects the
body if it's her body.
So, yes, it does affect thebrain.
So if you, if you are superstressed, what?
(04:49):
It does is it increases yourcortisol levels.
Uh, and that if you haveincreased cortisol levels it
impairs, like, your memory andconcentration.
I know that all too well uh alltoo well, uh, if you're super
stressed and it can also affectyour heart, so it can raise your
blood pressure.
It also can make you have heartdisease or have a stroke or
(05:10):
have a heart attack or the youknow the multiple different
things that it can do.
Do there in and of itself also,most people probably do not
know, but stress can also affectyour immune system.
So you compounding all of thatstress can suppress your immune
system, often making you morelikely to get sick, illnesses,
colds, right all of those things.
(05:32):
Also one other thing thatprobably people don't know the
digestive system can be affectedby stress.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Are you saying you can be constipated?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
you can be constipated and you can have
bigger, bigger problems thanconstipation, like irritable
bowel syndrome like what ibs orsomething like that Like there's
different things that canhappen, you know when, when
stress uh is into play also yourmusculoskeletal system.
So a lot of people yeah a lotof people probably know this one
too, like you.
If you have stress, it can uhlead to things like um tension,
(06:02):
muscle tension, headaches, uhheadaches, uh chronic pain like
that you might be dealing withso those muscle tensions,
especially in your neck?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
yeah, you have those little knots in your shoulders
and you go get a massage andthey just try to rub that knot
up.
Yeah, I didn't know that until,yeah, I knew it.
So tell me, tell me about apersonal like time for you where
you've seen stress actuallyimpact you physically well, I'm
all right at this time, workingon the business, of course,
right, uh, I didn't know, I wasstressed right, I'm going
(06:34):
through my day-to-day, like yousay, deadlines, things I'm
trying to do, trying to grow,trying to hire, and I'm just
thinking everything is okay.
You probably come, come to me,hey dad, what about this?
Okay, it's okay, we're there,we like this, right?
So, unbeknownst to me.
You know my son he was havinghis first, my first grandchild.
(06:55):
My mother she was dealing withillness and, as we're trying to
get things together and work,and my son and he's coming in
from Kansas and my motherdealing with this.
I'm trying to figure out.
I'm dealing with all theseemotions, but I'm thinking at
(07:15):
the time I'm taking it as okay.
Hey, I got it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know what I'm saying.
I know God got me, but I wasjust okay, I was just putting to
the side, I didn't know I wassuppressing it.
During this time I was havingchest pain, having a lot of
chest pains, I was havingheadaches, I was um, feeling
dizzy at sometimes, uh, bodyaching and hurting neck,
(07:41):
shoulders, back, everything andone day I just broke down.
I broke down and, in the midstof pain, my granddaughter room.
I broke down, called my mom andI'm just breaking down and I
don't know what's going on withme.
Right, I don't know, I'm justbreaking down.
(08:02):
So I went to the doctor, toldhim about the chest pain.
They said it was anxiety, myblood pressure was high and I
was dealing with all this when Ithought I was fine right you
know right so uh pushing through, pushing through and it could
have been critical, because thepeople that I love and the
people that I'm doing this for,which is my family, right, right
(08:24):
and the people that we serve, Icould have put myself in a
position, unknowingly, that myhealth was at stake.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Right, and that's what you're right, right, I'm
not going to give your age out.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No, I'm 45.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, he's 45 years old.
45, yeah, he's 45 years old.
Right, he's 45 years old, andyou know that comes with time.
Even in with the wisdom thatyou have now at 45 years old,
you couldn't even feel thestress no, no, no and like or or
I would.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My body was showing me signs, but you couldn't, I
didn't, I couldn't put two andtwo together and I think I think
what's crazy about that?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
because even at 27, like me right now, I just had an
instance where I had to go, uh,and just figure out, like
what's going on with me.
Like lately concentration isoff, just my brain is like every
which way.
Um, I'm fatigued and I'm likewhat the heck is wrong.
I go to the doctor and she'slike brie dude, I don't know how
(09:32):
you're functioning right,you're running on fumes you're
running on fumes and I'm like,okay, what, what is it?
what?
Any boil down to stress.
Yes, it boiled down to stress.
She's like you have to let thisgo.
Um, and and it affected me somuch.
I mean, and I'm talking about along time dealing with the
fatigue, with the concentrationissue, just dealing with that,
(09:52):
until I finally was like, whatis what is this?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I did not think it was stressed because I'm like
I'm fine, I'm dealing with theday to day you actually thought,
hey, with your fatigue you waslike hey, I got to get up and
push through it because you feltlike you was being lazy that
was.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That's literally it.
Like I felt like why am I?
I'm 27 years old, I'm too youngto be this tired.
Let's just go.
I need to go, I need to beat it.
I think I got it and I it tookme to sit down and be like,
really, what's going on?
And when you said that earlierabout like dreams and ambition,
that's me right.
(10:26):
That's me on a day-to-day basis.
I'm in the, I'm in thein-between.
We have so much going on, somany cool, amazing things that
God has blessed us with.
And so, because I'm just thatongoing person, like, okay, how
can we be better?
How can we grow better?
How can we serve more people?
I'm in that we have so manyambitions and dreams.
(10:47):
I'm in that in between, I got todo everything to get to this
from a to z right and I have tounderstand, I have to slow down,
right, and I can't be a to zevery day there's not enough
time in a day to be a diseaseand so for that and me trying to
get you to understand that, andwe have.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We have a good support system and friends.
That was also speaking with you.
We had to learn the delegatingtask.
Yep, to let this task go.
To let this go, yeah, rightyeah, and, and, and.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sometimes you can feel like and this is not even
talking about like just businessright like you can put this for
like family family life justlife in general, like sometimes
you do have to.
I had to learn to communicate,right, I had to learn to
communicate how I was feelingand like, hey, what is something
that you can help take on, thatcould help me?
(11:37):
Or and vice versa, like when Iwas super stressed, it felt, it
felt like again going from a toz, like hey, I have to do this
all on my own.
You literally have to see me,brie.
We, we are a team.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
We're a team.
Well listen, we're a team andwe got, we have a team.
So exactly we don't have tofigure it or do everything at
one time.
Yes, so you, so you like yourdaddy, right so?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
but, but.
But you kind of just hinted atthe bigger picture, like God
made fellowship.
For a reason you have yourspouse, for a reason you have
friends.
For a reason you have kids, fora reason Like we need to lean on
each other because we can't dolike said life be life, and we
(12:23):
can't do this alone like and we,and that's where the stress
kind of like pounds on cows on,because we're trying to do
everything on our own, when wehave to understand if you, if
you believe like I, believe god,god handles he handles and he
puts people in our lives to alsogo along with us and to relieve
some of that and also he hands,he God does handle it, but he
(12:47):
also put people like you say inour lives to help us out, and he
, he also have given us wisdomright right to search for
knowledge, to, uh, I guess be abetter right because he, he,
yeah, that's the word I'mlooking for.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So listen with me dealing with my stress, right,
uh, and my anxiety and all thatgood stuff, right, and I say
good because I'm, you know,right I had to go to a doctor.
That doctor had to prescribemedication.
Right, I have to, which I'mstill in the process doing.
I have to change change my dietRight.
(13:23):
I have to exercise.
Right, I have to do thingsdifferent.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You talk to my doctor and again, listen.
Like you said, he puts thesethings in place for a reason.
So I can't just be like I'm ahand distress and I believe in
God and I'm not going to doanything.
So yeah, I have, I had to.
When I have to change my diet,I actually have to do different
things to kind of calm my braindown to keep it concentrated.
(13:48):
Now I have to make sure I'mtaking my vitamins you know,
doing different things, alsoadding in exercise that I do not
want to do.
It's just all these differentthings that you can do, but I
mean that kind of goes into likethe next piece I want to talk
about like managing stress as awhole, like you want to manage
about, like managing stress as awhole, like you want to manage
your stress for better health.
And I don't, I don't thinkpeople link, link stress and
(14:11):
health together, like at all.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Right, uh, stress, uh , breaks down your body, yeah,
uh, and they do it silentlyright to where you.
You think you're okay, but thatunknown stress is just really
turning you down.
Right, oh, it's a headache.
Okay, let me take some Tylenol.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And keep it pushing.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, my back hurt.
Maybe I just need to bend overand pick this up.
You know things.
Your body is telling yousomething, right?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And when your body is talking to you, it can be
underlying stress.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
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Yes, sir, all right, we're going to encounter stress
daily.
That's the acute stress, right,not to mention all the other
things that might be happeningthat pounds on stress.
But we're going to encounterstress daily, at any moment, and
so we have to be able to managethat.
And you can do that a fewdifferent ways, you know, and
you have to find what fits bestfor you.
We I do recommend that you goand talk to your doctor yes,
(15:39):
please talk to your doctor,right talk to your doctor,
figure out what works best foryou and what's going on with
your body, uh, but one one ofthose things could be like
mindfulness, meditation, so likemaybe taking five to ten
minutes a day can still likemeditate, sit down.
Uh, I don't know.
You know they have all thesedifferent things, like these
apps, they with the music tomake you know all these
different things they have.
(16:00):
You want to reduce thosecortisol levels as much as
possible, because high cortisollevels not only, you know, deals
with stress when you mess up.
Like my doctor said, when you,when one part of your body makes
mess up, it's a chain reactionso it just keeps.
It knocks one thing off, thenone thing off, then one thing
off, one thing off, like it'sjust, it's it's one wrong thing
(16:25):
can just start a fire meditation, prayer, prayer right reading
your word right reading a bookright right uh, maybe some alone
time taking breakstaking breaks going on a walk um
deep breathing exercises.
Yes, nobody talks about thatenough, like we don't really
understand just how great takinga few deep breaths can do what
(16:50):
it can do for, like our body,lowering those those levels,
like I don't think anybody.
Um, I think before I talked tomy doctor I didn't think
anything about meditation one,because my brain does not stop
long enough to just sit down anddo it.
But she was like breathe, justbreathe, yeah, and I'm like I'm
(17:10):
breathing, what are you?
But like, just breathe, be inthe moment, relish the moment,
take a deep breath and thenstart a new um exercise.
We talked about that a littlebit going out, doing something
regular, uh, you know, regularlywith your body what, what we,
what we did this past weekendyes, spas yeah, yeah, uh.
(17:30):
I mean I mean the world hasevolved right so much, like.
I mean there's apps that youcan get on your phone to help
with with mindfulness andrelaxation.
There's now places that you cango and visit, uh.
So we actually visited a placecalled uh world springs.
Yes, in the colony.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yes, uh and it was awesome amazing they have.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They have just so much.
So, of course, you know, likethe standard massages, right,
everybody gets massages, fromdeep tissue to regular massage.
You know that that stuff.
But the way world uh springshas it is that there is 46
different mineral pools, yes,and and in these pools there are
minerals that can help withthings like brain function,
cognitive ability.
(18:12):
Uh, alignment, there's gastro,gastro anti-inflammatory chronic
pain, nerve pain yes uh,there's saunas and there's cold
plunges.
Like there's different thingsthat you can do, and that was
one of the things that my doctorwas telling me, like maybe some
cold plunge, because it justreally alleviates those stresses
, and so how long did you stayin the cold?
(18:33):
Listen.
I had about a good 10 seconds.
That was as much as I could doit was crazy cold but it was
good it was good and so that allof those different things can
release those stressors and kindof ground you back and kind of
get you.
Get you back right.
You have to understand whenyour body is a temple right, how
you treat it is what you willget back right.
(18:54):
You know what I mean and so wedo have to value like that
example.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So if you drive in um , uh what a 1979, uh what old
school colors or something, yeah, and so.
So I was born in 79, and if Idon't go get my my oil change
right, or if I don't put theright, proper gas, put the
proper oil, do the tune-ups forit right and guess what?
(19:20):
Pretty soon that colors ain'tgonna be too good, right right
in 1979, now it's what?
2024, 25?
Well, yeah, yeah.
So if you don't take care ofyour body right, if you don't
put the right things in it theright food right, the right uh
meditation, prayer, the right uhexercise, right, uh, and and
(19:43):
take some time to treat yourselfright, to love on yourself and
also love on the ones thatsurround you, yeah, it is,
there's no longevity you don't,you won't last, you know, and so
, um, those are all like justimportant things that you want
to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Sleep is also an important thing that you want to
think also having someone tocommunicate with yeah, I think
that's a big one right.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
When you have someone that you can communicate and
tell how you're feeling, howyou're doing hey, I'm not right
right now to maybe cry on theirshoulders all that plays a big
part.
And if that person loves you,that person would allow you to
be free to open up right Right,love you.
That person would allow you tobe free to open up right, right.
(20:28):
Of course you're going to bethere for that person to uh, uh,
give some advice, right, right,but at that time that person
needs you just to listen yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So social communication is like super
important and I think, if justto be super practical, like if
super practical time managementis setting boundaries Like I
don't.
I don't think I know.
For me that wasn't somethingthat that I really kind of
thought about.
Um, not until you was you.
(20:56):
One of your famous lines iswrite it down write it down.
And I've never write it down,kind of girl.
I mean, I got a phone, I gotinternet, I got, I got a notes
app, notes app I can just do, do, do and go about my business,
but it's not in a place where Ican see it all the time right,
and so you're really key aboutwriting it down.
And it wasn't until I listenedto you I'm like, okay, I'm just
gonna write it down.
He said right now, I'm gonnawrite it down.
(21:17):
But really it helped me managemy time better and that's also a
stressor for me.
You know like if, if stuffisn't done in by the deadline or
by certain times, that's likeit overwhelms me.
But so what I do to make surethat I'm staying on track now is
I manage my time wisely.
I got this set out on mycalendar.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I know what I'm going to do at this time at this time
, and so it helps me kind ofstay on track and I'm not
putting too much on my calendarbecause it's only 24 hours in a
day and most of it's beensleeping you know, right, but
that to-do list, yeah, right,especially for you guys that if
you're taking care of a lovedone, right, or you're busy, you
(21:57):
work and you got your family totake care of, a to-do list will
help, right, making that to-dolist or making time on your
to-do list to be intentionalwith yourself oh that's great
that's good because if you haveeverything else going on
throughout that day, yeah put onthat to-do list.
(22:18):
Hey, you know what I need 30minutes, maybe even an hour, to
myself To breathe, to breathe.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
whatever it may be, there's nothing wrong with
self-love.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Nothing wrong with it and it's not selfish.
It's not selfish Because if youcan't pour from an empty cup,
everybody knows that right,everybody knows that saying you
can't pour from an empty cup,and it's true, how can you give?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
something to someone else if you don't have it, and
and sometimes, uh, in dealingwith stress, that's what you're
doing yeah you've givensomething yeah or someone your
time, your energy, your thought,your blood, sweat and tears.
To where?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
yeah you're running on fumes and then that that goes
where it's setting boundaries.
That's a scary thing, right formost people, most people, most
people don't want to setboundaries because they don't
want to, they don't want to comeoff as selfish or they don't
want to come off as like it's myway or how it not that, but
what it is is.
It's knowing Christians theSabbath.
(23:28):
We have a very hard time takingthat day because most times
kids are having games.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Sometimes we have to work, so all these different
things that might come up, wegot to do all the X, y and Z.
We don't take that day becausethere's other things that are
come up.
We got to do all the x, y and z.
We don't take that day becausethere's other things that are
there that are taking precedentlife, but it's okay to say, hey,
I'm taking this sabbath and youcan communicate that to your
loved ones, to whomever.
Hey, this is my day where I'mtaking it to be with god or
(24:00):
whatever.
Whatever it is for youpersonally, but it's okay to set
that boundary.
Hey, nobody, I can't move onthis day.
This is this day is oh, I can'tmove on this time oh, at this
time, this is time I allowed itfor me, exactly, and hey
communicating with the householdyeah and everybody knowing that
, that should be fine that's itshould go, you know, of good.
(24:22):
So I think, just practical tipsthat everyone can kind of take
away from today.
When we're dealing with stressOf course, like I said, you're
going to deal with it every dayso just practical tips for the
day to day to make sure thatyou're getting through your day
and managing your stress wellfor better health.
So I would say, start your day,whether it's with gratitude,
(24:43):
journaling, prayer, reading yourBible, meditation, whatever
that may be, start your day with.
Setting the precedent of thisis how I'm going to start my day
Relaxed, soft.
I like I have now what I'mcalling slow mornings that's
what I've called it where I'mjust waking up and I'm just
getting immersed in my word andI'm just meditating on that at
(25:07):
the start of the day.
So now when my day comes, I'min a different mindset, my body
feels different, I'm relaxed,I'm cool.
You know I can kind of gothroughout my day like that.
Now that's not saying that itwon't change.
Something comes up thosestressors, but now I have,
because I got in my work thatmorning for me personally that
because that's what I use, I nowhave those heartbeats of god
(25:29):
that that are going to come inthroughout my day.
I'm going to remember thatscripture this morning that I
meditated on.
You know, be slow to anger, andall those different things you
know.
I'm now going to meditate onthat throughout the day.
So when those times come up, Ican, you know, use that you have
that in your heart.
Right, right and that's great.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And also with that, after you get that slow start,
do a little exercise, maybe awalk, get yourself together.
Right, that's the start of yourday.
Right, to give yourself someextra energy or extra push, uh,
to get through the day.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, and then also I would say another practical tip
just like use apps for guidedmeditation or like breathing
exercises or something likewhatever there are.
We just I just told you thereare a million apps that you can
use to help you fall asleepbetter, to get better sleep, to
help you meditate better, towhatever that might be.
There's apps for exercise,there's different things that
(26:20):
you can utilize in yourday-to-day that can help you
reduce that stress, lower thosecortisol levels and take a step
back and kind of visually seeokay, this is where I'm at and
I'm right now I'm feelingstressed.
What can I do to relieve that?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
and then, like you said, taking those deep breaths,
right?
Another thing I would encouragewhile you go on this new
journey, right?
Uh, I will encourage you totalk to your pcp yeah, right and
and just see.
I don't know, maybe you don'tain't dealing with stress, maybe
it's no other line stress, butit don't hurt to talk to your
pcp and to see if you're havingheadaches or things like that uh
(26:55):
, tension in your neck orwhatever the case may be.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Talk to your pcp, put all these things in order and
and and love yourself enough todo that to seek the help that
you deserve and so once thathappens, you put these things in
order and hopefully you seesome change yeah, and then I
think I guess one last thing Iwant to add is there's also,
(27:20):
like you said, pcp, there's alsotherapy yeah and that's
something that's kind of frownedupon sometimes.
Like you said, PCP, there's alsotherapy.
Yeah, and that's somethingthat's kind of frowned upon
sometimes.
Like you know therapy, and it'slike it's a bunch of just
stigmas around it.
But you have to find what worksbest for you and it's okay to
talk to someone and say is thisthe best route?
(27:41):
Is this the best route?
Is cold plunges?
My thing Is meditation, mything Should I talk to a
therapist, Whatever that may be?
Figure out what works best foryou, Because at the end of the
day, you deserve it.
You deserve to feel good, youdeserve to be stress-free and
it's just the way of life.
We're going to go throughthings, but you deserve to be
able to manage it and feelbetter about it.
(28:02):
So I hope that what you guysgot from today's episode just
really help you understand thatstress impacts every single part
of the body and it's somethingthat's going to come up every
single moment of the day.
But simple practices likemeditation, mindfulness,
breathing, exercise, switchingup the diet or sleep can make a
(28:25):
big, big impact and make adifference.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And remember, we're not doctors, right?
These are some things that wehave learned, right?
Everyone is different, soplease, please, seek guidance of
your PCP and we'll go fromthere.
So I hope this has enlightenedyou and I hope this helped you
on your journey.
Thank y'all for visiting withus.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yes, and we will see you guys on the next episode.
Continue to be great.
Continue to journey throughlife with positivity, love and
being stress-free.
Okay, anything else you'd liketo add to close this out?
Love, awesome.
All right, we'll see y'all nextepisode.
Bye.
Have you ever had a headache or a tough day and
noticed that your stomach was inknots?
That isn't just happening.
That is your body letting youknow about stress.
So stress and mental health areboth physically connected, and
so today, what we want to do wasdive into how stress impacts
not only the body, but also themind as well.
(00:21):
So let's hop right in what ishome care how do I navigate
health care?
How do I navigate?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
healthcare.
What do I do when I feel downand depressed?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm stressed.
Am I enough?
What can I do?
What is this going to cost?
All right, so stress.
What is stress to you?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Stress to me is life.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Very much.
They say life be life andstress is life.
Stress is yeah, yeah, very much.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
They say life be life and stress is life.
Stress is things that happensin life.
You know it can be minute, itcan be yeah, it can be anything
but things that you typicallyworry about.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Right, right.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They can cause stress .
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Right.
So just overall, I have twodefinitions here.
The first one is acute stress.
So acute stress is short termstress that occurs in response
to immediate challenges orthreats, such as meeting a
deadline or narrowly avoiding anaccident, and typically
resolves once the situation isover, like just going throughout
day that your day, goingthroughout your week, you're hit
(01:19):
with acute stress.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
momentary stress, okay, temporary stress working
right uh, your job havedeadlines, uh, you, uh.
You have co-workers right thatyou have to deal with, right,
the co-workers dealing with life, you dealing with life y'all
come together one place to get ajob done.
That's stress, right, right,not only that after work, now
you got the managed family right.
You may have kids, you may havea love when you're life y'all
come together one place to get ajob done.
That's stress, right, right.
Not only that after work, nowyou got the managed family right
.
You may have kids, you may havea love when you're taken care
(01:49):
of.
You may have something that youwant to do for yourself that
you're not able to do.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That can bring on stress, and so it's not a.
It's not a matter of if youwill be stressed.
It's a matter when, like, everymoment can be a stressful moment
for someone, so you willencounter stress at some point
in time but then there's alsochronic stress, which is a
long-term, persistent stresscaused by ongoing issues like
financial problems or anunhealthy work environment,
(02:16):
which can negatively impactphysical and mental health over
time.
So you talked about like thatwork environment, right?
So not only do you have to meetdeadlines, which could be just
a momentary, momentary stress,but also, if you don't like your
work environment or the peoplethat you work with, or your boss
is not awesome and you justhate what you're doing, that's
(02:37):
an overall stress that you willcontinue to feel daily, lifelong
, right?
So it's not like it's going togo away, that stress that you're
holding onto, that you likelydon't even know that you're
holding onto?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Or what if you?
Maybe you like the job, maybeyou like the environment?
But what if you have somethingdeep inside of you that's
calling you to do somethingbigger?
Or greater but you cannot makethat change because this job
right now is paying the bills.
So your calling your passion isis is dealing with you on the
(03:08):
inside but yeah uh, the billsare dealing with you like no way
, because you're preaching.
I didn't even think about howstressful ambition and dreams
could be yes, yes, yes that's,that's wild, I didn't so I, I,
you know, I, I know a little bitpart of my story later.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
But, but that's crazy .
So yeah, ambitions and dreamscould be be stressful as well.
They're not inherently bad.
Those are bad things.
But, you live in the day to dayof this is my life.
Now this is where I want to be,and that stress between the two
.
But also we have things in ourbody inherently that God gifted
us, like our fight or flight.
That is there to protect thosethings, like protect us against
(03:49):
stress.
But sometimes if our fight orflight is prolonged due to the
amount of stress that we have orhow we're living our lifestyle,
it can actually be harmful tous.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So it can put you in a dangerous situation because
you're not.
Hey, you can be in a situationI don't know what that may be on
the side of a rope putting on atire on the car or your car
broke down, but in thatsituation you're not able to
detect that maybe I need tostand on this side of the road
because of these other carscoming, because you can't sense
(04:21):
or feel that danger, because ofthe stress of the moment yes,
and it has suppressed you yeahthat's crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So I think overall we can see that stress doesn't
just affect like just our mindbecause that's what we think
inherently like.
If I'm stressed it's, it'sgoing to be me thinking or me
doing something it's not justthat, so like it affects the
body if it's her body.
So, yes, it does affect thebrain.
So if you, if you are superstressed, what?
(04:49):
It does is it increases yourcortisol levels.
Uh, and that if you haveincreased cortisol levels it
impairs, like, your memory andconcentration.
I know that all too well uh alltoo well, uh, if you're super
stressed and it can also affectyour heart, so it can raise your
blood pressure.
It also can make you have heartdisease or have a stroke or
(05:10):
have a heart attack or the youknow the multiple different
things that it can do.
Do there in and of itself also,most people probably do not
know, but stress can also affectyour immune system.
So you compounding all of thatstress can suppress your immune
system, often making you morelikely to get sick, illnesses,
colds, right all of those things.
(05:32):
Also one other thing thatprobably people don't know the
digestive system can be affectedby stress.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Are you saying you can be constipated?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
you can be constipated and you can have
bigger, bigger problems thanconstipation, like irritable
bowel syndrome like what ibs orsomething like that Like there's
different things that canhappen, you know when, when
stress uh is into play also yourmusculoskeletal system.
So a lot of people yeah a lotof people probably know this one
too, like you.
If you have stress, it can uhlead to things like um tension,
(06:02):
muscle tension, headaches, uhheadaches, uh chronic pain like
that you might be dealing withso those muscle tensions,
especially in your neck?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
yeah, you have those little knots in your shoulders
and you go get a massage andthey just try to rub that knot
up.
Yeah, I didn't know that until,yeah, I knew it.
So tell me, tell me about apersonal like time for you where
you've seen stress actuallyimpact you physically well, I'm
all right at this time, workingon the business, of course,
right, uh, I didn't know, I wasstressed right, I'm going
(06:34):
through my day-to-day, like yousay, deadlines, things I'm
trying to do, trying to grow,trying to hire, and I'm just
thinking everything is okay.
You probably come, come to me,hey dad, what about this?
Okay, it's okay, we're there,we like this, right?
So, unbeknownst to me.
You know my son he was havinghis first, my first grandchild.
(06:55):
My mother she was dealing withillness and, as we're trying to
get things together and work,and my son and he's coming in
from Kansas and my motherdealing with this.
I'm trying to figure out.
I'm dealing with all theseemotions, but I'm thinking at
(07:15):
the time I'm taking it as okay.
Hey, I got it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know what I'm saying.
I know God got me, but I wasjust okay, I was just putting to
the side, I didn't know I wassuppressing it.
During this time I was havingchest pain, having a lot of
chest pains, I was havingheadaches, I was um, feeling
dizzy at sometimes, uh, bodyaching and hurting neck,
(07:41):
shoulders, back, everything andone day I just broke down.
I broke down and, in the midstof pain, my granddaughter room.
I broke down, called my mom andI'm just breaking down and I
don't know what's going on withme.
Right, I don't know, I'm justbreaking down.
(08:02):
So I went to the doctor, toldhim about the chest pain.
They said it was anxiety, myblood pressure was high and I
was dealing with all this when Ithought I was fine right you
know right so uh pushing through, pushing through and it could
have been critical, because thepeople that I love and the
people that I'm doing this for,which is my family, right, right
(08:24):
and the people that we serve, Icould have put myself in a
position, unknowingly, that myhealth was at stake.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Right, and that's what you're right, right, I'm
not going to give your age out.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No, I'm 45.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, he's 45 years old.
45, yeah, he's 45 years old.
Right, he's 45 years old, andyou know that comes with time.
Even in with the wisdom thatyou have now at 45 years old,
you couldn't even feel thestress no, no, no and like or or
I would.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My body was showing me signs, but you couldn't, I
didn't, I couldn't put two andtwo together and I think I think
what's crazy about that?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
because even at 27, like me right now, I just had an
instance where I had to go, uh,and just figure out, like
what's going on with me.
Like lately concentration isoff, just my brain is like every
which way.
Um, I'm fatigued and I'm likewhat the heck is wrong.
I go to the doctor and she'slike brie dude, I don't know how
(09:32):
you're functioning right,you're running on fumes you're
running on fumes and I'm like,okay, what, what is it?
what?
Any boil down to stress.
Yes, it boiled down to stress.
She's like you have to let thisgo.
Um, and and it affected me somuch.
I mean, and I'm talking about along time dealing with the
fatigue, with the concentrationissue, just dealing with that,
(09:52):
until I finally was like, whatis what is this?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I did not think it was stressed because I'm like
I'm fine, I'm dealing with theday to day you actually thought,
hey, with your fatigue you waslike hey, I got to get up and
push through it because you feltlike you was being lazy that
was.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That's literally it.
Like I felt like why am I?
I'm 27 years old, I'm too youngto be this tired.
Let's just go.
I need to go, I need to beat it.
I think I got it and I it tookme to sit down and be like,
really, what's going on?
And when you said that earlierabout like dreams and ambition,
that's me right.
(10:26):
That's me on a day-to-day basis.
I'm in the, I'm in thein-between.
We have so much going on, somany cool, amazing things that
God has blessed us with.
And so, because I'm just thatongoing person, like, okay, how
can we be better?
How can we grow better?
How can we serve more people?
I'm in that we have so manyambitions and dreams.
(10:47):
I'm in that in between, I got todo everything to get to this
from a to z right and I have tounderstand, I have to slow down,
right, and I can't be a to zevery day there's not enough
time in a day to be a diseaseand so for that and me trying to
get you to understand that, andwe have.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
We have a good support system and friends.
That was also speaking with you.
We had to learn the delegatingtask.
Yep, to let this task go.
To let this go, yeah, rightyeah, and, and, and.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sometimes you can feel like and this is not even
talking about like just businessright like you can put this for
like family family life justlife in general, like sometimes
you do have to.
I had to learn to communicate,right, I had to learn to
communicate how I was feelingand like, hey, what is something
that you can help take on, thatcould help me?
(11:37):
Or and vice versa, like when Iwas super stressed, it felt, it
felt like again going from a toz, like hey, I have to do this
all on my own.
You literally have to see me,brie.
We, we are a team.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
We're a team.
Well listen, we're a team andwe got, we have a team.
So exactly we don't have tofigure it or do everything at
one time.
Yes, so you, so you like yourdaddy, right so?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
but, but.
But you kind of just hinted atthe bigger picture, like God
made fellowship.
For a reason you have yourspouse, for a reason you have
friends.
For a reason you have kids, fora reason Like we need to lean on
each other because we can't dolike said life be life, and we
(12:23):
can't do this alone like and we,and that's where the stress
kind of like pounds on cows on,because we're trying to do
everything on our own, when wehave to understand if you, if
you believe like I, believe god,god handles he handles and he
puts people in our lives to alsogo along with us and to relieve
some of that and also he hands,he God does handle it, but he
(12:47):
also put people like you say inour lives to help us out, and he
, he also have given us wisdomright right to search for
knowledge, to, uh, I guess be abetter right because he, he,
yeah, that's the word I'mlooking for.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So listen with me dealing with my stress, right,
uh, and my anxiety and all thatgood stuff, right, and I say
good because I'm, you know,right I had to go to a doctor.
That doctor had to prescribemedication.
Right, I have to, which I'mstill in the process doing.
I have to change change my dietRight.
(13:23):
I have to exercise.
Right, I have to do thingsdifferent.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You talk to my doctor and again, listen.
Like you said, he puts thesethings in place for a reason.
So I can't just be like I'm ahand distress and I believe in
God and I'm not going to doanything.
So yeah, I have, I had to.
When I have to change my diet,I actually have to do different
things to kind of calm my braindown to keep it concentrated.
(13:48):
Now I have to make sure I'mtaking my vitamins you know,
doing different things, alsoadding in exercise that I do not
want to do.
It's just all these differentthings that you can do, but I
mean that kind of goes into likethe next piece I want to talk
about like managing stress as awhole, like you want to manage
about, like managing stress as awhole, like you want to manage
your stress for better health.
And I don't, I don't thinkpeople link, link stress and
(14:11):
health together, like at all.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Right, uh, stress, uh , breaks down your body, yeah,
uh, and they do it silentlyright to where you.
You think you're okay, but thatunknown stress is just really
turning you down.
Right, oh, it's a headache.
Okay, let me take some Tylenol.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And keep it pushing.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, my back hurt.
Maybe I just need to bend overand pick this up.
You know things.
Your body is telling yousomething, right?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And when your body is talking to you, it can be
underlying stress.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
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Yes, sir, all right, we're going to encounter stress
daily.
That's the acute stress, right,not to mention all the other
things that might be happeningthat pounds on stress.
But we're going to encounterstress daily, at any moment, and
so we have to be able to managethat.
And you can do that a fewdifferent ways, you know, and
you have to find what fits bestfor you.
We I do recommend that you goand talk to your doctor yes,
(15:39):
please talk to your doctor,right talk to your doctor,
figure out what works best foryou and what's going on with
your body, uh, but one one ofthose things could be like
mindfulness, meditation, so likemaybe taking five to ten
minutes a day can still likemeditate, sit down.
Uh, I don't know.
You know they have all thesedifferent things, like these
apps, they with the music tomake you know all these
different things they have.
(16:00):
You want to reduce thosecortisol levels as much as
possible, because high cortisollevels not only, you know, deals
with stress when you mess up.
Like my doctor said, when you,when one part of your body makes
mess up, it's a chain reactionso it just keeps.
It knocks one thing off, thenone thing off, then one thing
off, one thing off, like it'sjust, it's it's one wrong thing
(16:25):
can just start a fire meditation, prayer, prayer right reading
your word right reading a bookright right uh, maybe some alone
time taking breakstaking breaks going on a walk um
deep breathing exercises.
Yes, nobody talks about thatenough, like we don't really
understand just how great takinga few deep breaths can do what
(16:50):
it can do for, like our body,lowering those those levels,
like I don't think anybody.
Um, I think before I talked tomy doctor I didn't think
anything about meditation one,because my brain does not stop
long enough to just sit down anddo it.
But she was like breathe, justbreathe, yeah, and I'm like I'm
(17:10):
breathing, what are you?
But like, just breathe, be inthe moment, relish the moment,
take a deep breath and thenstart a new um exercise.
We talked about that a littlebit going out, doing something
regular, uh, you know, regularlywith your body what, what we,
what we did this past weekendyes, spas yeah, yeah, uh.
(17:30):
I mean I mean the world hasevolved right so much, like.
I mean there's apps that youcan get on your phone to help
with with mindfulness andrelaxation.
There's now places that you cango and visit, uh.
So we actually visited a placecalled uh world springs.
Yes, in the colony.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yes, uh and it was awesome amazing they have.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They have just so much.
So, of course, you know, likethe standard massages, right,
everybody gets massages, fromdeep tissue to regular massage.
You know that that stuff.
But the way world uh springshas it is that there is 46
different mineral pools, yes,and and in these pools there are
minerals that can help withthings like brain function,
cognitive ability.
(18:12):
Uh, alignment, there's gastro,gastro anti-inflammatory chronic
pain, nerve pain yes uh,there's saunas and there's cold
plunges.
Like there's different thingsthat you can do, and that was
one of the things that my doctorwas telling me, like maybe some
cold plunge, because it justreally alleviates those stresses
, and so how long did you stayin the cold?
(18:33):
Listen.
I had about a good 10 seconds.
That was as much as I could doit was crazy cold but it was
good it was good and so that allof those different things can
release those stressors and kindof ground you back and kind of
get you.
Get you back right.
You have to understand whenyour body is a temple right, how
you treat it is what you willget back right.
(18:54):
You know what I mean and so wedo have to value like that
example.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So if you drive in um , uh what a 1979, uh what old
school colors or something, yeah, and so.
So I was born in 79, and if Idon't go get my my oil change
right, or if I don't put theright, proper gas, put the
proper oil, do the tune-ups forit right and guess what?
(19:20):
Pretty soon that colors ain'tgonna be too good, right right
in 1979, now it's what?
2024, 25?
Well, yeah, yeah.
So if you don't take care ofyour body right, if you don't
put the right things in it theright food right, the right uh
meditation, prayer, the right uhexercise, right, uh, and and
(19:43):
take some time to treat yourselfright, to love on yourself and
also love on the ones thatsurround you, yeah, it is,
there's no longevity you don't,you won't last, you know, and so
, um, those are all like justimportant things that you want
to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Sleep is also an important thing that you want to
think also having someone tocommunicate with yeah, I think
that's a big one right.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
When you have someone that you can communicate and
tell how you're feeling, howyou're doing hey, I'm not right
right now to maybe cry on theirshoulders all that plays a big
part.
And if that person loves you,that person would allow you to
be free to open up right Right,love you.
That person would allow you tobe free to open up right, right.
(20:28):
Of course you're going to bethere for that person to uh, uh,
give some advice, right, right,but at that time that person
needs you just to listen yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So social communication is like super
important and I think, if justto be super practical, like if
super practical time managementis setting boundaries Like I
don't.
I don't think I know.
For me that wasn't somethingthat that I really kind of
thought about.
Um, not until you was you.
(20:56):
One of your famous lines iswrite it down write it down.
And I've never write it down,kind of girl.
I mean, I got a phone, I gotinternet, I got, I got a notes
app, notes app I can just do, do, do and go about my business,
but it's not in a place where Ican see it all the time right,
and so you're really key aboutwriting it down.
And it wasn't until I listenedto you I'm like, okay, I'm just
gonna write it down.
He said right now, I'm gonnawrite it down.
(21:17):
But really it helped me managemy time better and that's also a
stressor for me.
You know like if, if stuffisn't done in by the deadline or
by certain times, that's likeit overwhelms me.
But so what I do to make surethat I'm staying on track now is
I manage my time wisely.
I got this set out on mycalendar.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I know what I'm going to do at this time at this time
, and so it helps me kind ofstay on track and I'm not
putting too much on my calendarbecause it's only 24 hours in a
day and most of it's beensleeping you know, right, but
that to-do list, yeah, right,especially for you guys that if
you're taking care of a lovedone, right, or you're busy, you
(21:57):
work and you got your family totake care of, a to-do list will
help, right, making that to-dolist or making time on your
to-do list to be intentionalwith yourself oh that's great
that's good because if you haveeverything else going on
throughout that day, yeah put onthat to-do list.
(22:18):
Hey, you know what I need 30minutes, maybe even an hour, to
myself To breathe, to breathe.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
whatever it may be, there's nothing wrong with
self-love.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Nothing wrong with it and it's not selfish.
It's not selfish Because if youcan't pour from an empty cup,
everybody knows that right,everybody knows that saying you
can't pour from an empty cup,and it's true, how can you give?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
something to someone else if you don't have it, and
and sometimes, uh, in dealingwith stress, that's what you're
doing yeah you've givensomething yeah or someone your
time, your energy, your thought,your blood, sweat and tears.
To where?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
yeah you're running on fumes and then that that goes
where it's setting boundaries.
That's a scary thing, right formost people, most people, most
people don't want to setboundaries because they don't
want to, they don't want to comeoff as selfish or they don't
want to come off as like it's myway or how it not that, but
what it is is.
It's knowing Christians theSabbath.
(23:28):
We have a very hard time takingthat day because most times
kids are having games.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Sometimes we have to work, so all these different
things that might come up, wegot to do all the X, y and Z.
We don't take that day becausethere's other things that are
come up.
We got to do all the x, y and z.
We don't take that day becausethere's other things that are
there that are taking precedentlife, but it's okay to say, hey,
I'm taking this sabbath and youcan communicate that to your
loved ones, to whomever.
Hey, this is my day where I'mtaking it to be with god or
(24:00):
whatever.
Whatever it is for youpersonally, but it's okay to set
that boundary.
Hey, nobody, I can't move onthis day.
This is this day is oh, I can'tmove on this time oh, at this
time, this is time I allowed itfor me, exactly, and hey
communicating with the householdyeah and everybody knowing that
, that should be fine that's itshould go, you know, of good.
(24:22):
So I think, just practical tipsthat everyone can kind of take
away from today.
When we're dealing with stressOf course, like I said, you're
going to deal with it every dayso just practical tips for the
day to day to make sure thatyou're getting through your day
and managing your stress wellfor better health.
So I would say, start your day,whether it's with gratitude,
(24:43):
journaling, prayer, reading yourBible, meditation, whatever
that may be, start your day with.
Setting the precedent of thisis how I'm going to start my day
Relaxed, soft.
I like I have now what I'mcalling slow mornings that's
what I've called it where I'mjust waking up and I'm just
getting immersed in my word andI'm just meditating on that at
(25:07):
the start of the day.
So now when my day comes, I'min a different mindset, my body
feels different, I'm relaxed,I'm cool.
You know I can kind of gothroughout my day like that.
Now that's not saying that itwon't change.
Something comes up thosestressors, but now I have,
because I got in my work thatmorning for me personally that
because that's what I use, I nowhave those heartbeats of god
(25:29):
that that are going to come inthroughout my day.
I'm going to remember thatscripture this morning that I
meditated on.
You know, be slow to anger, andall those different things you
know.
I'm now going to meditate onthat throughout the day.
So when those times come up, Ican, you know, use that you have
that in your heart.
Right, right and that's great.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And also with that, after you get that slow start,
do a little exercise, maybe awalk, get yourself together.
Right, that's the start of yourday.
Right, to give yourself someextra energy or extra push, uh,
to get through the day.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, and then also I would say another practical tip
just like use apps for guidedmeditation or like breathing
exercises or something likewhatever there are.
We just I just told you thereare a million apps that you can
use to help you fall asleepbetter, to get better sleep, to
help you meditate better, towhatever that might be.
There's apps for exercise,there's different things that
(26:20):
you can utilize in yourday-to-day that can help you
reduce that stress, lower thosecortisol levels and take a step
back and kind of visually seeokay, this is where I'm at and
I'm right now I'm feelingstressed.
What can I do to relieve that?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
and then, like you said, taking those deep breaths,
right?
Another thing I would encouragewhile you go on this new
journey, right?
Uh, I will encourage you totalk to your pcp yeah, right and
and just see.
I don't know, maybe you don'tain't dealing with stress, maybe
it's no other line stress, butit don't hurt to talk to your
pcp and to see if you're havingheadaches or things like that uh
(26:55):
, tension in your neck orwhatever the case may be.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Talk to your pcp, put all these things in order and
and and love yourself enough todo that to seek the help that
you deserve and so once thathappens, you put these things in
order and hopefully you seesome change yeah, and then I
think I guess one last thing Iwant to add is there's also,
(27:20):
like you said, pcp, there's alsotherapy yeah and that's
something that's kind of frownedupon sometimes.
Like you said, PCP, there's alsotherapy.
Yeah, and that's somethingthat's kind of frowned upon
sometimes.
Like you know therapy, and it'slike it's a bunch of just
stigmas around it.
But you have to find what worksbest for you and it's okay to
talk to someone and say is thisthe best route?
(27:41):
Is this the best route?
Is cold plunges?
My thing Is meditation, mything Should I talk to a
therapist, Whatever that may be?
Figure out what works best foryou, Because at the end of the
day, you deserve it.
You deserve to feel good, youdeserve to be stress-free and
it's just the way of life.
We're going to go throughthings, but you deserve to be
able to manage it and feelbetter about it.
(28:02):
So I hope that what you guysgot from today's episode just
really help you understand thatstress impacts every single part
of the body and it's somethingthat's going to come up every
single moment of the day.
But simple practices likemeditation, mindfulness,
breathing, exercise, switchingup the diet or sleep can make a
(28:25):
big, big impact and make adifference.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And remember, we're not doctors, right?
These are some things that wehave learned, right?
Everyone is different, soplease, please, seek guidance of
your PCP and we'll go fromthere.
So I hope this has enlightenedyou and I hope this helped you
on your journey.
Thank y'all for visiting withus.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yes, and we will see you guys on the next episode.
Continue to be great.
Continue to journey throughlife with positivity, love and
being stress-free.
Okay, anything else you'd liketo add to close this out?
Love, awesome.
All right, we'll see y'all nextepisode.
Bye.
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