3 research-backed improv tricks to help manage stress

Here’s how improv-inspired practices can help regulate your nervous system, quiet your inner critic, and meet chaos with curiosity.

Stress isn’t just an occasional visitor in our lives—it’s more the houseguest who never got the hint to leave. Between economic uncertainty, workplace upheaval, rounds of layoffs, and the delightful unpredictability of daily life (surprise traffic jams, anyone?), most of us are living in a near-constant state of low-grade panic.