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What if chronic stress is the real reason chronically ill patients fail to heal, no matter what protocol they follow? Dr. Stephen Sideroff has spent decades researching exactly what happens to the nervous system under prolonged stress, and what he's found challenges how most practitioners think about root-cause healing. In this episode, he reveals what conventional medicine gets wrong about stress, why some people are wired to stay stuck, and what it actually takes to get the body back into a state where healing is even possible. Watch the full interview to find out.

Dr. Stephen Sideroff is a clinical psychologist, resilience researcher, and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCLA. He is the founder of the UCLA Stress Strategies program and author of The Path: Mastering the Nine Pillars of Resilience and Success, a comprehensive framework built on decades of clinical research into stress, neurofeedback, and what separates people who heal from people who stay stuck.

We discuss the following:

Nervous system Balance
The four horsemen of stress
Recognizing signs of poor stress management
Why recovery after stress matters
Resilience, trauma, and childhood wiring
How to start managing stress
Breaking the negative mindset cycle
Rethinking therapy and rumination
Why change is so hard
Getting chronically ill patients unstuck
Protecting your energy from social media
Judy's reflection and the Wholeness Method

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394. UCLA Stress Expert: Your Body Is Still Stuck in Survival

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394. UCLA Stress Expert: Your Body Is Still Stuck in Survival