{"id":2884,"date":"2026-08-10T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/you-dont-need-to-know-how-it-ends\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:01:03","slug":"you-dont-need-to-know-how-it-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/you-dont-need-to-know-how-it-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t need to know how it ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have to wait until life is certain to live it to the fullest.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on not knowing, intolerance for uncertainty, and stress as a friend. <\/p>\n<p>What would change if you didn&#8217;t have to know how it ends in order to keep going? How often do you put off taking a step because you want to know how it will end first? <\/p>\n<p>Stress expert Elke Van Hoof describes what happens in your brain when you\u2019re in that gray area of not knowing. Why your smoke detector goes off when toast burns and when there\u2019s a real fire. Why some people slip into a controlling or blocking mode more quickly than others. And why that isn\u2019t a weakness, but a learned survival mechanism.   <\/p>\n<p>Stress is there to help you through periods of uncertainty, but it becomes overwhelming when it takes complete control. Using three relatable profiles, Elke shows what stress looks like as a BFF in real life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have to wait until life is certain to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2887,"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":[265],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-40"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","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=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}