{"id":2680,"date":"2026-08-10T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/why-we-notice-stress-too-late\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:24:58","slug":"why-we-notice-stress-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/why-we-notice-stress-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we notice stress too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe behave like frogs that do not jump out of the boiling pan.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on why we notice stress, exhaustion, and burnout too late. <\/p>\n<p>Why do people do nothing when they know they are stressed?&#8221; Stress expert Elke Van Hoof receives this question constantly. The answer is confronting: because their brains have already changed so much that they can no longer help themselves.  <\/p>\n<p>It is a myth that we can have everything under control if we only understand it enough. Elke explains why our obsession with predictability actually makes us more vulnerable in a world that is changing rapidly. <\/p>\n<p>This is why we are often too late in recognizing stress: the social shame that makes us remain silent and our addiction to fake connections on social media that takes away all recovery time. Elke shares her vision of what a \u201cgood life\u201d truly means, and it has nothing to do with success.<br \/>\nThis is stress mastery without mindfulness apps. Let us not destroy ourselves through the illusion of control.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe behave like frogs that do not jump out of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}