Podcast Ep. 002: What is Stress?
When I first tried to market Gravity Point®, I hit a wall.
I mean…
If you’ve been on this newsletter long enough, you’ve seen all those walls!
Here’s the problem you’ve been watching me wrestle.
Marketing requires you to identify one person, with one problem, and offer them one solution. But Gravity Point® helps everyone with any problem, so I spent years trying to fit my work into boxes that would never fit.
Eventually I realized: all human problems stem from the same root cause: stress.
And stress? Stress is everything.
And I’m a trauma specialist, I could definitely build my message around stress and talk about everything at the same time.
Most of us think stress is that negative feeling we get when we're overwhelmed at work or stuck in traffic. We're either stressed or we're not.
But here's the truth: stress is change. It's the pressure that occurs when any aspect of your life changes and requires you to adapt.
Getting a promotion? Stress.
Your kid coming home from school? Stress.
Feeling hungry? Stress.
Receiving a compliment? Also stress.
As long as you're alive, you're experiencing change. And as long as you're experiencing change, you're experiencing stress.
In the latest episode of the Gravity Point® Podcast, I break down:
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What stress actually is (and why it's not the enemy)
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Your body-mind-relationship system and how it processes change
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The 20 stress responses (beyond fight, flight, and freeze)
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Vital vs. vicarious stress—and why mirroring matters for sensitive people
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The stress response cycle: Feel, Think, Act, Impact
This episode lays the foundation for everything we'll explore on this podcast. Because once you understand what stress is and how your system processes it, you finally have a framework for understanding why you get stuck, and how to heal.
Listen to the full episode on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.
Talk to you inside,
Ashley
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