How to Optimize Stress + Cultivate Resilience Through Movement

Aug 31

In this crowdsourced episode, we’re talking about how to use movement + physical challenges to optimize our response to stressful life events and cultivate resilience 🔥 This episode is based on a request for content that talks about reasons to work out other than just trying to conform to social beauty standards and personally, optimizing stress + cultivating resilience are my two BIGGEST reasons for working out so I thought I’d share the ins + outs of them in this episode for you!

INSIDE THE EPISODE ~

It’s totally okay to have fitness goals that relate to how our bodies look
Things get hairy when ‘how we look’ is being measured against social beauty standards instead of our own internal sense of strength and beauty 💜
The two biggest benefits I’ve experienced from challenging workouts are 1) learning to optimize stress response and 2) cultivating greater resilience
What does it mean to optimize our stress response and why does it matter?
Dr. Alia Crum’s research into stress optimization
3 tools to help you optimize your stress response during a challenging workout [and beyond]
My ride or die mantras that I use daily to help me personally optimize my stress response
Drs. Southwick and Charney and their work on identifying the pillars of resilience
How physical fitness contributes to resilience from both the mental and physiological perspectives
What is cognitive flexibility and why is it a useful concept?
How to use the stress optimization tools to enhance cognitive flexibility
And lots more ;)