I have a confession to make. But first, I want you to make a little confession to me.
In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if you've experienced relatively little stress. Anyone?
How about a moderate amount of stress?
Who has experienced a lot of stress? Yeah. Me too.
But that is not my confession.
My confession is this: I am a health psychologist, and my mission is to help people be happier and healthier.
But I fear that something I've been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good, and it has to do with stress.
For years I've been telling people, stress makes you sick.
It increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease.
Basically, I've turned stress into the enemy. But I have changed my mind about stress, and today, I want to change yours.