Are You Stressed or Anxious? How to Tell the Difference

Описание: Welcome to Healing the Hungry Ghost! 🪷 I’m Summer, a trauma therapist exploring the roots of stress, disconnection, and emotional suffering — and what it truly means to heal.

I'm very excited to launch this first episode of my series on the impacts of different types of stress and trauma! 🎉 We tend to treat stress like it’s always bad—something to avoid. Even so, most of us live with near constant high stress. We spend as much energy resisting stress as dealing with it. This series aims to challenge the narrative on stress: what if understanding and working with stress—rather than fighting it—leads to deeper well‑being?

In this kickoff episode, we clear up a major misconception: the difference between stress and anxiety. They feel similar but come from different roots and require different approaches. In this episode you'll learn:
-The key differences between stress and anxiety
-Why combating stress can backfire
-Practical strategies to live wisely with stress and ease anxiety

👉 Hit Subscribe for the rest of our series on how to work with different types of stress!
📌 Watch next:
Episode 2: “Not All Stress Is Bad: Rethinking the Power of Positive Stress” – Coming next week!

Timestamps⏱️
00:00 Stress: We're All Feeling It
00:59 Understanding the Nuances of Stress
01:38 Main Types of Stress
02:50 What Is Stress Anyway?
03:49 The Source of Anxiety
05:19 Anxiety & Negative Core Beliefs
06:49 Healing Anxiety & Managing Stress

Sources consulted in this video:
Ecker, B., Ticic, R., Hulley, L., & Sibson, P., Martignetti, C. A., Geoghegan, N., & Connor, T. A. (Collaborators). (2012). Unlocking the emotional brain: Eliminating symptoms at their roots using memory reconsolidation.

Süloğlu, D., & Güler, Ç. Y. (2021). Predicting perceived stress and resilience: the role of differentiation of self. Current issues in personality psychology, 9(4), 289–298. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2021.106140

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2025). I’m So Stressed Out! Fact Sheet. National Institute of Mental Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publi...