EP 339: The Generational Cycle of Fear And Stress (And How to Break It)

When we experience stress in our bodies, it is helpful - and accurate - to call it the stress response. This is because our bodies are RESPONDING to something. On the positive side of stress, we’re responding to excitement. On the negative side, we’re responding to fear. This distress is dangerous enough for us as people - our physical, mental, and emotional health suffers from chronic distress - but it’s even more dangerous for our kids! Even when we think we’re putting on a happy face and fooling everyone, our children, who are acutely attuned to us, see the stress. And it causes them to be afraid. Which elicits the same stress response in THEIR bodies. Not only does this carry the same physical, mental, and emotional health impacts, but it does something even more powerful: It teaches them to operate from this fear. And the more this is ‘practiced’ the more permanent it becomes. The solution, therefore, starts with US, as parents. Through simple practices, we can change our relationship to the stressors in our lives and control and reduce the stress response in our bodies and free our kids from this burden. Would you like to learn how?