
At some point, the you-know-what is going to hit the fan. And it happened to me the other morning when I was driving my husband to his colonoscopy. This is the first episode without a video version because I recorded it from my iPhone after dropping my husband off at the hospital. I promised to take you into my life; I just didn't expect it to be as a stressful situation was unfolding in real time. When it comes to dealing with stress, best-selling psychotherapist and researcher Harriet Lerner says that being an underfunctioner or an overfunctioner is your patterned response to dealing with the alarm in your body. It probably doesn’t surprise you that I am what researchers call an "Overfunctioner." My husband, Chris, is an "Underfunctioner," especially on those days when he’s on the way to a medical procedure. And learning the way YOU react to stress is a game-changer for your relationships. An overfunctioner like me allows the alarm in my body to take over in stressful si...
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