Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living

Let’s start with the external side of micro stressors.

The answer to making your house of cards stronger is to make it shorter. It really is that simple. That’s why the first of your three accountabilities on the path to becoming unstressable, the three Ls, is to limit. Limit the stressors you allow into your life. Remove them regardless of how insignificant they may seem.

There rarely is a time when only one thing is stressing us.

When that happens, the feedback loop—the cycle that works perfectly from trigger to stress to victory over your

they recognize the discrepancy between the state of your body—stressed—and the reality of the situation—safe—and shut off the stress response to bring you back to normal. The booster is removed from your bloodstream, and you’re back to the calm version of you.

This is very similar to the way we humans experience stress too. Forces, challenges, and pressures are applied to us all the time, from the hurtful comment of a friend, all the way to late nights at work or even illnesses and financial struggles that we are all bound to face at one moment

your worry turns into fear.

We all run a narrative through our minds that aims to optimize our lives. This needs to be attended to—that needs fixing, and this needs a change.

we even give those thoughts attention. With every passing comment, we feel more worthless and more insecure, worried about our future and regretful about our past. With no real external stresses affecting us, we end up being more effective than life itself in stressing ourselves out with our very own thoughts and emotions.