How our bodies and minds respond to stress, and ways we can reduce it and stay healthy

Let’s just state the obvious here and get it out of the way: The world is a much weirder place than it was six months ago. Thus, with all the uncertainty of COVID-19 -- lost jobs, closed businesses and schools, political strife that’s overtaking the serious and straightforward concerns about health, ongoing when-will-this-end? questions -- plus issues of race inequality, which are leading to riots and protests; plus whatever we all have going on in our own lives anyway...how can we not be anxious?