The Heart of Unraveling Stress

Have you heard this before? Have you yourself felt bunched up, knotted, and helplessly frazzled? What did you do?

If you’re like me, you looked everywhere for answers. You scoured the internet for YouTube videos, TED talks, and social media. You’ve listened to a gazillion self-help podcasts and read as many books. You’ve asked others for their advice.

You read the buzzwords: Adopt a “growth mindset.” Be “curious and empathetic.”

You heard the clichés: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

You were promised “simple, easy, and quick” solutions.

If these had worked, you wouldn’t be here.

We’ve stayed tightly wound mentally, emotionally, physically, socially, and spiritually. We wrestle with chronic injury with no escape from the pain. Our personal lives plateau as we retreat from friends and family. Our professional lives suffer as we exhaust ourselves with anxiety and self-doubt. We can’t concentrate or plan for the future.

Fortunately, we can unravel this stress.

On this site, you’ll read stories from rock climbing and horseback riding, pop culture and video games, acting and comedy and more. We’ll explore where stress comes from through animal behavior and science. We’ll take weekly actions to identify the sources of your anxieties, fear, and frustration and work through them.

And we’ll see how a kitten named Spritz can be your greatest teacher in pulling these threads.

Let’s ditch the buzzwords. Skip the cliches. Since nothing else has worked, let’s try something new.


Unravel Your Stress with Spritz the Kitten

“She’s a bundle of nerves.”

“I’m a ball of stress."

“He’s so wound up.”

“They are really high-strung.”