Stress is Psychologically Based: Shelley starts at the source, our personality patterns

Big Self Show hosts, Chad and Shelley get together to explore their takeaways from Chad's conversation with Rob Cross and Karen Dillon and their new book, The Microstress Effect.

Shelley emphasizes the important role that our own personality plays in creating the ongoing conditions of our stress. She opens up about a couple of ways her own personality has dictated the terms of her ongoing stress patterns.

Time Stamps:

1:18--Most of the stress we experience is psychologically based

3:04--Shelley describes two addictive patterns in her own personality's operating system

5:36--Can we always disrupt what our personality patterns are doing when we're surrounded by the conditions of our culture?

Show Notes:

The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems -- and What To Do About It

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