How to mentally reset when you’re stressed out (w/ Dr Jenny Taitz)
5/4/202640 min
It’s hard to not feel stress at the state of the world today, so how can you cope with stressors without letting them completely overwhelm you? Clinical psychologist Jenny Taitz spends most of her days helping clients navigate through their stress. She shares why she uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, in her therapy work, whether a cold plunge can help you snap out of your messy ruminations, and why doing a few tasks each day to practice for pleasure and mastery can help improve your mood.
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- Buy Dr. Taitz's book Stress Resets
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First 90 secondsChris Duffy· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This is How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and I'm very stressed. Why am I stressed? Because I have access to the internet, okay? I read the news. I know what's happening in the world. Also, I have young children, and I worry about the kids, and then sometimes the kids need things in the middle of the night, so then I'm up in the middle of the night, so then I'm tired the next day, and I still have to record a video making an intro for the podcast. But there are these deep, dark circles under my eyes, and also, there's so much work to do. And speaking of work to do, there's always more work to do, and there's also always more laundry, and always more cleaning, and always more groceries, and always more bills to pay. There's so much stress, and it all just keeps coming. You know, all of us have stress in our lives, and some of us handle it in healthy ways, and others of us maybe in, um, less than healthy ways. So I think that I know that I need to, and I bet a lot of you also need to, talk to today's guest, Dr. Jenny Taitz. She is a licensed clinician with a doctorate in clinical psychology, and she is the author of the new book, Stress Resets: How to Soothe Your Mind and Body in Minutes. Now, soothing my mind and body in minutes? That sounds pretty dang good. I would love that. The stressors are not gonna go away, they're always gonna be there, but maybe I, and maybe we, can learn some strategies to deal with them. So let's find out how to do it. To get us started, here is Jenny reading a passage from her book.
Jenny Taitz· Guest1:21
Let's take an example that unfolded in my house. One morning, when my husband, Adam, was tired and rushing, not a good combination,