#5: How to Cultivate Emotional Resilience with Elizabeth Stanley

Living Fully Alive

Join Mary and her very special guest, Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD. Liz is a professor of security studies at Georgetown University. She speaks, teaches, and writes widely on a variety of topics related to resilience, political psychology, civil-military relations, and international security. She is the award-winning author of Paths to Peace and Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma. She is the creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®, taught to thousands in civilian and military high-stress environments. MMFT® research has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, NPR, and in Time magazine and many other media outlets. A U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. She’s also a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based trauma therapy.

ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS…

- How chronic stress affects the brain and physical body

- Why the hustle culture is hurting us all

- What is the “window of tolerance” and how to widen it

- How to recover from trauma & stress and create resilience

- How to gain agency over our emotions

- Ways to support yourself when you get triggered

- Why finding a sense of “safety” is critical for recovery

- Adding the MMFT® method to your emotional toolbox

- And more!

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SEASON 3:

In this 8 part series we will be talking about Feeling To Heal in order to Live Fully Alive

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