{"id":2873,"date":"2026-08-10T12:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/kitchen-table-panic-isnt-a-character-flaw\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:57:32","slug":"kitchen-table-panic-isnt-a-character-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/kitchen-table-panic-isnt-a-character-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen-table panic isn&#8217;t a character flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKitchen-table panic isn\u2019t a character flaw.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on misframing and how we assess stress. <\/p>\n<p>How often do you label feeling overwhelmed as a personal failure rather than a problem with the situation? Is there really too much for you to do, or is your brain telling you that you can&#8217;t handle it? <\/p>\n<p>Elke Van Hoof explains what\u2019s really going on at that moment. It\u2019s not about your planning or structure. Elke calls it a \u201cmisframing\u201d: the narrative your brain creates from a normal, busy evening quietly shifts from \u201cthis is a lot\u201d to \u201cI\u2019m not enough.\u201d And that shift is what causes the stress.   <\/p>\n<p>Elke Van Hoof explains how your brain assesses a stressful situation: as a challenge, an obstacle, or a threat. This explains why the same situation can feel manageable at one moment and like an attack on your self-worth the next. She also explains how a \u201cstress-as-enemy\u201d mindset automatically links every kitchen-table panic to personal failure, and what a more honest assessment actually does to change your stress level.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKitchen-table panic isn\u2019t a character flaw.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2876,"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":[259],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-38"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}