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Daily English Pod is a space for learning English beyond grammar and textbooks.
During the week, you’ll learn practical vocabulary, expressions, idioms, and real-life English, the language people actually use in everyday conversations, emotions, and work.
On weekends, we slow down. Through ideas from psychology, philosophy, and real human experience, we explore language as a way to better understand life, emotions, identity, and growth.
This podcast is created by Jale, an English teacher with 13 years of teaching experience and a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from Canada, who teaches with patience, clarity, and care, and believes learning works best when students feel seen, respected, and safe to think aloud.
The goal is simple but meaningful: to help you understand English deeply, use it confidently, and connect it to your real life. English here is not just a skill. It’s a gentle companion for clearer thinking, honest expression, and deeper human connection.
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Window of tolerance
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Window of tolerance
The window of tolerance is the emotional space where your nervous system feels safe enough to think clearly, feel emotions, and function.
Hello and welcome to a weekend episode of Daily English — where we try to grow, in English and in life.
Today I want to talk about something many of us are experiencing — especially in hard days.
Feeling overwhelmed. Feeling numb. Feeling like “I’m not myself.”
Psychology has a name for this. It’s called the window of tolerance.
The window of tolerance is the emotional space where your nervous system feels safe enough to think clearly, feel emotions, and function.
When you are inside this window, you can talk, focus, decide, and breathe normally. You feel present.
But when stress becomes too much, the nervous system moves outside this window.Some people go above the window.
They feel: anxious, angry, restless, and panicked
This is the body saying: “I’m in danger.”
Others go below the window.
They feel: numb, empty, disconnected, shut down. This is the body saying: “I’m overwhelmed.”
Here’s the important part:
If you feel like you are not functioning well lately, it does not mean you are weak. It means your nervous system is overloaded.
This is biology — not a personality problem. So what helps?
The goal is not to force productivity. The goal is to gently return to the window.
And the fastest way back is through the body.
Simple things help: slow breathing, drinking water, walking, touching something solid, feeling your feet on the ground
These small actions send one message to the brain:
“You are safe right now.”
And when the body feels safer, the mind becomes clearer. So this weekend, be gentle with yourself.
If you feel too much — slow down. If you feel nothing — reconnect slowly. You don’t need to fix everything. You just need to come back into your window.
And let me leave you with this: Healing does not start with pushing harder. It starts with feeling safe enough to breathe again.
Thank you for being here today. See you tomorrow.