When Stress is Givin’ Ends: What You Should Know About Eustress and Distress

ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design

As a high performance person, you'd get bored reeaaaalll fast of a completely stress free life. Learn more about eustress, the kind that keeps you curious and motivated. I also share how to spot when distress starts creeping on your happyland and how it fools you into a downward spiral that makes you susceptible to burnout.

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1. Eustress is good stress. It keeps us motivated and focused- that hit of adrenaline that makes us excited.
2. When external burnout conditions are present like work overload, lack of support and too many meaningless tasks, we can slip into distress and rely on our addiction to stress hormones to push through.
3. Distress creates a physical response in the body that is harmful to our physical and mental health unless we have a physical response soon after it is activated.
4. When distress is chronic, it harms our well being and leads to burnout. As we deal with this overtime, we become "wired and tired," and unable to relax and rest.
5. Signs of burnout show up in the body as becoming overly controlling impatient and irritable, brain fog, extreme fatigue, resorting to "comfort habits" to numb out or stimulate ourselves, losing motivation.
6. To reset, you need to identify the root cause, implement boundaries, and reconnection to self with salutogenic activities.

Stay Inspired,

Angela

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