Dr Epel suggests viewing these moments as challenges rather than crises. Be more lion, rather than gazelle. And remember all the things you’ve overcome, all the stress you’ve survived and all the tools you have in your kit to tackle whatever obstacle is in your path.

“Too often, we’re responding to the stressors that pop up over the course of a day as though they’re a survival threat to fight off or run from, rather than a meal to take down,” she writes in her book, The Seven-Day Stress Prescription.

“Instead of why me, think: try me. Think about all the hard situations you have survived already – all that experience and hard-earned wisdom are embodied in you. Your stress mindset shapes your thoughts and experience of reality – including your physiological responses to events. Approach the situation with the mindset of, ‘What else do you have for me, universe?’ and see how different that may feel.”

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