{"id":2761,"date":"2026-08-10T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/stress-is-not-in-your-head\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:58:48","slug":"stress-is-not-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/stress-is-not-in-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress is not in your head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on why you cannot simply let go of stress: \u201cIt is not in your head, it is your head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet it go, it&#8217;s all in your head.\u201d Stressed individuals constantly hear this frustrating response. However, stress expert Elke Van Hoof says: it is not in your head, it is your head. This is exactly what makes stress so complex.   <\/p>\n<p>In this scientific deep-dive, Elke finally opens the black box of your brain. How a stress signal triggers a complete biological cascade that prepares your body for action. Elke explains why chronic stress can eventually damage your brain, and how that leads to a malfunctioning compass that releases even more stress. The solutions are simple but not easy; white time is one of them.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on why you cannot simply &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2762,"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":[209],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-6"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","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=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}