Stress makes us resilient, we’re not built to live in it

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Stress makes us resilient, we’re not built to live in it
Stress makes us resilient, we’re not built to live in it

My two-year-old knows how to take a stress breath.

I don’t remember specifically teaching that to him but apparently he learned through observation. Every so often, I’ll watch him take a big, deliberate breath in and slowly blow it back out. I’m guessing he’s seen his mother do it a time or two.

It got me thinking about stress – and whether life really is more stressful today than it was for generat…