{"id":2892,"date":"2026-08-10T13:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/stress-begins-when-you-lose-control\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:02:52","slug":"stress-begins-when-you-lose-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/stress-begins-when-you-lose-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress begins when you lose control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStress begins when you lose control.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on learned helplessness and regaining control. <\/p>\n<p>I take responsibility, but I don&#8217;t actually make any decisions. Does that sound familiar? This most likely has nothing to do with work pressure. You&#8217;ve lost control of your (work) life.   <\/p>\n<p>But how do you regain control over your stress? And what&#8217;s the difference between chaos and having control over your life? <\/p>\n<p>In this episode of &#8220;Stress as a BFF,&#8221; stress expert Elke Van Hoof explains what environmental control is and why losing it has such a significant impact on your stress profile. She shows how you can move from chaos to control and how small, concrete steps can help you regain control. <\/p>\n<p>Do you want to gradually regain control of your life? Elke explains how learned helplessness develops, how it affects your brain and body, and how to deal with it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStress begins when you lose control.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2895,"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":[269],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-41"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","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=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}