Toxic Stress and What to Do About It

What happens when our bodies face chronic stress? The alarming rise of stress-related conditions|such as heart disease|diabetes|and depression|show the price we’re paying for our high-pressure living and increased stressors in the world|but what can we do about it? The Reverend Connor Gwin explores these questions with Dr. Lawson Wulsin|a professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine specializing in psychosomatic medicine. Wulsin is the author of Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It (April 2024)|which explores the fascinating medical and social mysteries of our stress response system and how stress affects illness.

Lawson Wulsin has been a professor at the University of Cincinnati for the past 35 years. His writings explore the lifelong dance between the mind and body|and the power of human attachments in everyday life and healing. Here he shares these explorations collected from the lessons of clinical care|teaching|and research. In addition to his most recent book|Wulsin is also the author of Treating the Aching Heart: A Guide to Depression|Stress|and Heart Disease (2007).