#083: How To Break The Cycle of Stress

The power of love holds the secret to completing the stress response cycle and experiencing long-term healing from real stress.  In this episode, we'll tell you more about this one BIG reason to keep choosing love over fear. Here's what research is teaching us:  learning to power through stress isn't enough.  Even learning to eliminate some sources of stress won't provide all the relief we need because there will always be tension and trauma we can't avoid.  Unavoidable stress--left unresolved, will make us sick. There is great hope.  We can find ways to experience LOVE in trusting relationships and eliminate the toxic hormone explosion that happens when we're under stress.  When we nourish our hearts, minds, and souls with LOVE--our bodies chemically experience a kind of "coming home."  This completes the stress response cycle in our physical bodies and helps us avoid staying stuck in wounded-ness, insecurity, anxiety, and immaturity. Join us to find out more about this "love one another" miracle and linger in these TAKEAWAYS: Oxytocin is the stuff we need to complete the stress response cycle.  Without oxytocin, we'll stay stuck--in wounded-ness, insecurity, anxiety, and immaturity. Immature people don't recognize the same long-term implications of radical ideas that mature people do.  Maturity comes from love, not success. Wounded people hurt people.  Restored people restore people.  Love is the source of restoration. We mention these resources in this episode: The Gift In You by Dr. Caroline Leaf https://smile.amazon.com/Gift-You-Discovering-Through-Hidden/dp/0981956734/ Trees in the tub: Try "bathing" in nature to reduce stress https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/40401/20200118/trees-in-the-tub-try-bathing-in-nature-to-reduce-stress Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRcHdeUG9Y  Our work to build schools without fear https://www.john15academy.com/about Thank you for sharing the LOVE IS FEARLESS podcast with your friends and family.  Together, there is great hope.