“Noticing stress can be as simple as having an awareness that something just isn’t right, feels off, unpleasant, you’re not where you want to be, or you don’t feel how you want to feel. Noticing can take time if you’re dealing with thoughts, feelings, and ideas that stree is normal or necessary. If you’re in a situation that you believe you’re supposed to be in and don’t honor your power of choice to change, walk away from, or enhance the situation, you’ll continue to experience the stress until your perspective changes.”
-Tracie Braylock, Radical Relaxation

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314. The Radical Practice of Relaxation with Tracie Braylock

March 26, 2025

Janell Rardon

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Tracy Braylock, holistic nurse and well-being advocate, joins us in exploring the revolutionary concept of relaxation as a radical act of faith. We discuss how believers can engage their God-designed relaxation response to exist in a state of peace regardless of external circumstances. In this episode, Tracie and I discuss:

• Understanding radical relaxation as removing stress from its root like a radical medical procedure.
• Learning to identify our divinely designed relaxation response and intentionally engage it daily.
• Recognizing when we've misidentified ourselves by our stress or health conditions rather than our God-given identity.
• Teaching children relaxation practices through breathing, meditation, and mindful moments.
• Viewing relaxation as a spiritual practice that requires trusting God with our productivity and deadlines.
• Addressing the compounded stress our bodies have stored over years or decades.
• Practicing self-awareness by noticing when we participate in our stress response.
• Finding personalized relaxation triggers through nature, writing, aromatherapy, or play.
• Embracing the counterintuitive truth that "a calm life is a strong life."

Visit Tracie's website and order her new book: Radical Relaxation

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