FLOURISH - Stress Management - The Behavioral Roots of Brain Health

To flourish as you age, you need to keep your brain as healthy as possible, and you need to manage your mental states. This episode deals with the brain health side of the equation. 

There are eight Behavioral Roots of Brain Health  that, if addressed together, can help you to keep your brain healthy and flourish as you age. 

This episode focuses on Stress Management

We evolved to have a stress response to alert us to danger.  An acute, short-term stress response is beneficial - as long as we can let go of the stress and return to a normal state of being. Stress becomes toxic when it is chronic and unrelieved. Much of our modern stress is psychological in nature. To flourish, we need to learn how to manage our psychological stress.