Stress and Brain-Body Resilience with Jessica Patching-Bunch

My guest today is Jessica Patching-Bunch (or JPB), a stress resilience coach with a background in neurodevelopment research. In this episode, we have a lot of fun unpacking the concept of stress and how to navigate it better.

You'll hear why JPB left a career in academics and research to bring neuroscience-backed tools to the public, and her tips for filtering through the huge amounts of health information that we get from different sources.

We talk about:

• What is exactly is stress, and is it always bad for us?
• How our beliefs about stress can actually affect how our body responds (levels of hormones and other biomarkers)
•  How we can take our power back through awareness and by using simple practices to build a better relationship with our stress response
• Why breathwork is her #1 favorite tool for stress resiliency (and what people often misunderstand about breathwork)
• How different kinds of exercise affect your brain differently (running vs. yoga vs. weight lifting, etc.)

This episode will broaden your perspective on stress and empower you to build more resilience! I hope you'll enjoy geeking out with us on some practical science for your brain and body.

To connect with JPB, you can visit her website at https://www.brain-bodyresilience.com/

or listen to her podcast Brain-Body Resilience

or follow her on Instagram @jpb.brainbodyresilience.

To connect further with me (Addie), check out my main website movedtomeditate.yoga

or the Moved To Meditate Class Library at movedtomeditate.com

And, I’m on Instagram at @addie_movedtomeditate (for mindfulness, movement, yoga, and pictures of PNW nature and my adorable kitten, Mustache).

As mentioned at the beginning of the episode, to receive the Deeper Dive worksheet on this month’s theme of Metta (lovingkindness), you can sign up for the MTM email newsletter here. The worksheet is designed to support your personal, creative exploration of this theme, and it’s coming out the first week of March!

P.S. If you missed the newsletter because you're listening to this later, you can still get the worksheet. All you need to do is email me at [email protected] and ask. :)