If you’re feeling stressed today, you’re not alone. Daily life and the world we live in is often full of uncertainty and vulnerability.

While stress is inevitable, our relationship to stress is far more malleable. How would you experience daily life if stress provided inspiration rather than overwhelm?

International expert on stress, well-being, and optimal aging, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Elissa Epel sits down with Tami Simon for a conversation about The Stress Prescription. Dr. Epel studies how self-care practices such as meditation and positive stress can promote psychological and physiological thriving. We can’t avoid stress. But we can embrace it and transform it. Dr. Epel shows us how we can “stress better”—by training our minds and bodies to shift toward a beneficial stress response.