Eustress and Distress: How to Understand and Leverage Stress

Sometimes it's good to be stressed. Here's why.

Stress.

It feels as though it is impossible to not be stressed in today’s world. If it isn’t bills, structural inequalities, personal and collective trauma, global injustice, abuse, or suffering - it’s certainly something.

Did I mention bills?

There’s nothing that gets my heart rate going more than seeing the reminder of an upcoming direct debit. Sigh.

However, did you know that you can actually use stress to your advantage? In fact, there’s a kind of stress that positively impacts your life? That’s right.

It’s actually important to cultivate these positive moments of stress in your life. Here’s how and why eustress can be a positive force in your life.