Brain-Body Wellness and Stress Resilience with Jessica Patching-Bunch
My podcast guest today is Jessica Patching-Bunch (or JPB), a stress resilience coach with a background in neurodevelopmental research. In this episode, we have a lot of fun unpacking the concept of stress and how to promote brain-body wellness.
Episode Details:
You’ll hear why JPB left a career in academics and research to bring neuroscience-backed brain-body wellness tools to the public. And, she shares her tips for filtering through the huge amounts of confusing health information that we get from different sources.
Brain-Body Wellness topics we talk about:
- What is exactly is stress, and is it always bad for us?
- How our beliefs about stress can actually affect how our body responds (levels of hormones and other biomarkers)
- How we can take our power back through awareness and by using simple practices to build a better relationship with our stress response
- Why breathwork is her #1 favorite tool for stress resiliency (and what people often misunderstand about breathwork)
- How different kinds of exercise affect your brain differently (running vs. yoga vs. weight lifting, etc.)
This episode will broaden your perspective on stress and empower you to build more resilience! I hope you’ll enjoy geeking out with us on some practical science for greater brain-body wellness.
Guest Bio:
Jessica Patching-Bunch (JPB) is a stress resilience coach on a mission to provide practical approaches to understanding and managing stress. After working in neurodevelopmental research, she realized she wanted to let her knowledge serve a larger community outside of academia.
Struggling with stress-related illness most of her life, she set out to address a real gap in accessible, alternative mind-care and brain-body wellness education. Translation: she teaches practical ways to manage stress so you can get out of your own way, stress less and live more.
Resources & Links from this episode:
- “How to make stress your friend” TED Talk by psychologist Kelly McGonigal (whose work JPB referenced in this episode)
- Background on Hans Selye, who we talked about in this episode (the endocrinologist considered the “father” of our modern concept of stress, but controversial due to some of his methods and funding sources like tobacco companies)
To connect with JPB, you can visit her website at https://www.brain-bodyresilience.com/ or listen to her podcast Brain-Body Resilience or follow her on Instagram @jpb.brainbodyresilience.
You can also practice with your podcast host (Addie) and build your stress resilience in the Moved To Meditate Class Library!
P.S. If you missed the newsletter mentioned in this episode with the Deeper Dive worksheet on Lovingkindness practice (because you’re listening to this later), you can still get the worksheet. All you need to do is email Addie at mail@movedtomeditate.com and ask. 🙂