What Is Your Stress Language?

Enlightened Empaths

Samantha Fey and Denise Correll

Self-improvement, Religion, Education, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Remember the trendy book about identifying your love language? Just as people have diverse communication styles and ways to profess their love for someone, we also exhibit distinct responses to stress, which can be termed as our “stress language.” This includes how you perceive, interpret, and respond to stressors and comprises emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological components which all reflect your unique coping mechanisms and vulnerabilities.

As empaths, many of us are very susceptible to stress, sometimes ours and sometimes that which we pick up from others and the environment. Through self-awareness, reflection, and targeted interventions, individuals can cultivate resilience and navigate life’s challenges with greater ease and adaptability. Embracing one’s stress language empowers individuals to not only cope with stress but also thrive amidst adversity, fostering holistic well-being and personal growth.

According to Chantel Donnelly, therapist and stress researcher, there are 5 stress languages:

* The Imploder: This is a “freeze” response to a stressful situation. The imploder may feel hopeless, helpless and paralyzed.

* The Exploder: This is a “fight or flight” response to a stressful situation. This person may have an inflated reaction to a stressful situation; they might get irritable, frustrated or angry, or even leave a situation that they can’t handle.

* The Fixer: This reaction is typically how women express a stress response. This can look like appeasement, people pleasing, overstepping boundaries and even “mothering” people who aren’t your kids.

* The Number: As in, a person who numbs themself to the outside world when things aren’t going well. This person usually uses escapism ― such as drugs, alcohol, online gaming, overworking or overexercising ― as a coping mechanism for stress.

* The Denier: This is someone who possesses toxic positivity in response to stress and can be overly optimistic to avoid reality.

As always thank you for being part of our community of listeners and we hope you have a low stress week!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened
0:05.0	Empaths, where we discuss, explore and connect with fellow Empaths,
0:11.4	healers, intuitive, and seekers.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to enlightened Empaths.
0:22.0	On today's show, we're going to talk about your stress language.
0:26.1	Remember that trendy book about identifying your love language a few years back?
0:30.4	Well, there's a new study out that helps us identify what our stress language is and we thought that since
0:36.8	stress is an inevitable aspect of human existence and can manifest in so many different ways, like influencing our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors,
0:46.2	that this would be a really important topic to cover.
0:48.9	And even though stress is universal, their response to stress is not uniform. It varies among individuals and it's influenced by
0:56.9	your personality upbringing and experiences and so one effective approach to
1:02.4	managing stress is learning and identifying what your unique stress is
1:04.0	learning and identifying what your unique stress language is.
1:08.0	This is a combination of your reactions and coping mechanisms.
1:12.0	So we thought this would be a really big topic because stress, everyone has it, right?
1:18.0	And right now there's so many people that are struggling with stress and anxiety because as
1:24.4	Empass we do tend to suck it all up like a sponge. We tend to have to
1:29.2	differentiate is this my stress is it someone else's a lot of people their work
1:34.1	environments have changed and they're going back in after being in the comfort of
1:38.4	their own home so it's this is a perfect timing for this show.
1:42.8	I think so too, because you know we all have different ways of communicating and expressing
1:47.9	ourselves, but we also have different ways that we deal with our own stress.
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