{"id":3325,"date":"2026-08-28T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/recovery-becomes-a-source-of-stress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:45:18","slug":"recovery-becomes-a-source-of-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/recovery-becomes-a-source-of-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery becomes a source of stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stress is usually seen as something you should avoid\u2014something you need to get under control or eliminate as quickly as possible. But what if that assumption itself is the problem?  <\/p>\n<p>In this episode of \u201cStress as a BFF,\u201d Elke Van Hoof debunks the idea that relaxation is simply a matter of \u201cswitching off.\u201d She explains why that often backfires in practice and how rest can even become an additional source of pressure. <\/p>\n<p>There is a major misunderstanding surrounding disconnection. Instead of shutting everything down, Elke advocates for a different approach. It\u2019s not about doing less, but about shifting differently between exertion and recovery.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress is usually seen as something you should avoid\u2014something you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3328,"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":[309],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-52"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}