{"id":2865,"date":"2026-08-10T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/remind-yourself-of-how-strong-you-already-were\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:55:57","slug":"remind-yourself-of-how-strong-you-already-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/remind-yourself-of-how-strong-you-already-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Remind yourself of how strong you already were"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can remind yourself of how strong you already were.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on helplessness, the predictive brain, and the healing timeline. <\/p>\n<p>How is it that you feel powerless, even though you&#8217;ve already survived so much? What if your brain has simply forgotten how many times you&#8217;ve already pulled through? <\/p>\n<p>In this episode of &#8220;Stress as a BFF,&#8221; stress expert Elke Van Hoof explains exactly what happens when stress turns into a sense of helplessness. You\u2019re certainly not incompetent, but your brain starts predicting disaster. Stress then feels like a foregone conclusion.  <\/p>\n<p>Elke describes it as a vicious cycle that causes your brain to stop registering your past successes. She also shares her own lowest point: the moment she sat at the kitchen table and thought, \u201cI\u2019m no good as a person.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can remind yourself of how strong you already were.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2866,"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":[255],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-37"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","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=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}