It’s Not Your Fault: 5 Hidden Forces That Shape Your Stress

Feeling stressed, anxious, or stuck in fight-or-flight? Where you are today is not your fault, and the science of stress shows why. 0:00 Understanding the Science of Feeling Good 1:20 Decoding Your Nervous System Responses 3:15 Genetics and the Epigenetic Switch 4:32 The Hidden Weight of Intergenerational Trauma 5:58 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Long-term Impact Five forces shaped your stress response long before you had any say: your nervous system, your genetics and epigenetics, generational trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and your environment. In this episode, we walk through each one, and through the hopeful part: neuroplasticity means your brain can still change. That makes stress reduction and emotional regulation skills you can learn. Go deeper: Master Any Space is a course on nervous system regulation: calming your own stress response and helping the people around you manage theirs. It’s built for teachers, parents, and anyone others count on. → [course link] 📚 The book: How to Bounce Back: Emotional Evolution and the Science of Feeling Good → [Amazon link] Jennifer K.W. Dhillon has spent more than 20 years helping people bounce back from stress and trauma. As founder of the nonprofit Bounce Back Generation, Jennifer teaches resilience skills to young people in crisis. As an attorney, she works with children and families navigating the child welfare (CPS) system. She also leads trainings on stress management, burnout prevention, and conflict for government agencies and private organizations. Jennifer holds a trauma studies certification and a Mental Health First Aid designation, and is the author of How to Bounce Back and How to Get Calm Before You Lose Your Cool. About Generation Bounce Back Generation Bounce Back teaches adults science-backed tools for stress relief, emotional resilience, and handling conflict. It’s for the teachers, caregivers, healthcare workers, and helpers everyone counts on, and it offers books, courses, and trainings for organizations. → generationbounceback.com Its sister nonprofit, Bounce Back Generation, teaches the same resilience skills to young people in Northern California. → bouncebackgeneration.org Please Subscribe. This channel is brand new, and you’re early. Coming up next: why your body reacts to a stressful email like it’s a predator, how calm spreads from one person to another (co-regulation), and the two-second pause that changes any conversation. After that, we’ll explore the Hero’s Journey and why the work you do matters more than you know. Which of the five factors hit home for you? Tell me in the comments. Your questions shape what we cover next. 📥 Free download: Find your go-to stress response with the Nervous System Personality Quiz → https://www.generationbounceback.com/... (see description) 🎓 Go deeper: Master Any Space is a course on mastering your own nervous system and helping the people around you manage theirs. It’s built for teachers, parents, and anyone others count on. → https://www.generationbounceback.com/... 📚 The book: How to Bounce Back: Emotional Evolution and the Science of Feeling Good → https://www.amazon.com/How-Bounce-Bac... Which of the five factors hit home for you? Tell me in the comments. Your questions shape what we cover next. #nervoussystem #resilience #traumainformed