The great paradox of a stress cycle is that the harder you try to escape the tighter is its grip. Yet simply trying to relax and look dispassionately at one’s emotional distress is no more effective. Stuart Shanker’s blog post for Psychology Today describes how we can break free from a stress cycle and move forward.
From Susan Hopkins, EdD | Executive Director This reflection was originally published in The MEHRIT Centre newsletter. Sign up for
Start with the core ideas, then follow the path that matches what you want to understand next.
Understand the full picture of stress. Explore biological, emotion, cognitive, social, and prosocial stress, and how stresses across the Five Domains interact.
Explore the science beneath what we see and experience. Go deeper into stress and energy, brain-body states, self-regulation and self-control, behaviour, co-regulation, and resilience.
Put the Self-Reg lens into practice. Explore the Five Steps: Reframe, Recognize, Reduce, Reflect, and Restore, and how they create a pathway for understanding stress and finding restoration.
Learn about applied Self-Reg in practice. Explore Energy-Centred Teaching, Self-Reg Havens, and the Self-Reg Journeys for applied Self-Reg
