The Four Types of Stress and How to Handle Each

Everything You Need to Know About Lightening Your Allostatic Load

Becky Meadows
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readJun 24, 2022

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The last few years have been stressful for a lot of us. Since 2020, many lives have been flipped inside out. The result of all this? An increase in our allostatic load.

“An allostatic whaaat?”

Our allostatic load is a term used to describe the cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events. Everything from Starbucks being out of oat milk to a relative dying increases our…

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Becky Meadows
ILLUMINATION

Becky is a consultant and copywriter. She lives, thinks, and works in Florida with her wife and cats. Reach out for inquiries at rebeccananns1@gmail.com.