Your Body Isn’t Broken — It’s Stuck in Survival Mode

So before we talk about rest, notice your body.

You know what I'm going to ask you to do already? Take a deep breath.

Maybe this is the first breath that you've taken all day or maybe all week.

Is your jaw tight? Is your tongue glued to the roof of your mouth? Here's Lauren's reminder to get her tongue off the roof of her mouth.

Are your shoulders slightly raised? Like they do not belong.

They're not earrings.

Lower them.

Let them down.

It's okay.

Let them down.

Is your breath shallow? Most of us don't need more discipline.

We need regulation.

We need safety and support.

So what if exhaustion isn't about effort but about never fully turning off the stress? We go, we start our day, like we talked about in the last episode, in our email, on social media, with an alarm, into text messages, starting the day.

But what if we turn that off and we start our day where we need to? How's that practice going for you? And then do you work from bed? Do you have sleep hygiene? Do you have a sacred space to protect your stress and your sanity? If not, we need to start talking about that.

What if your body hasn't really felt safe in years?

That's a good question, Anna.

You know, stress isn't really the enemy, right? Your body was designed for activation, but activation without completion becomes depletion.

And the parasympathetic system is responsible for digestion and repair, hormonal recalibration, emotional regulation.

And here's the quiet truth.

Many people live in a low-grade fight-or-flight situation So consistently, that calm feels unfamiliar.

I know what that feels like.

I have felt that before.

And so if you're listening and thinking, that's me, just tap like for a second.

It helps this message reach to the women who think she's lazy when she's actually over activated.