Stress has become a catch-all term. We talk about work stress, family stress, emotional stress, as if it were simply a mental state. Yet stress is first and foremost a physiological process. By understanding what happens in the body when stress sets in, we can completely change the way we look at it...
Do you feel exhausted before you even start your day? Do you wake up tired, your heart already racing, feeling like a weight is pressing down on your chest? Do you have the impression that your mind is running on a loop, that your body is accumulating tension, and that you're operating on automatic pilot... until you break down? Are you...
Are you exhausted, but your brain refuses to stop? You go to bed tired and yet you can't get to sleep, you watch the clock ticking, you calculate how many hours you have left before you wake up, you change position, you toss and turn? Or maybe you fall asleep easily, but you wake up...
