Why am I so Irritable and Exhausted?

Chronic stress, you know, is some unpleasant feeling you push through.

It's changing your bi-biology in real time.

Elevated cortisol disrupts sleep, drives cravings, slows your metabolism, and keeps your immune system running in this low-grade defensive crouch instead of actually repairing anything.

And if you're in your 40s and 50s, for many women it's worse because cortisol and your reproductive hormones are closely linked.

So as estrogen and progesterone naturally decline, your body tends to lean more heavily on your adrenal system to keep things steady, which means chronic stress doesn't just sit alongside perimenopause for a lot of women, it can actually amplify it.

Worse hot flushes, worse sleep, worse mood.

So your breathwork, yoga, meditation, all those things are great tools to help reduce stress, and I use them myself, and I share specific strategies of those with my coaching clients.

But they're not addressing the root of what is driving your chronic stress, and that's what we're looking at today.

Your nervous system can't tell the difference between a genuine threat, you know, a tiger, an assailant, an accident, and a perceived one.

Which means if your subconscious is constantly seeing things in your ev-everyday life as a threat, your body is literally responding accordingly.

Your cortisol rises, your stress response activates, and it stays activated consistently because perthe-perceived threats are everywhere in your life.

So today, we're going to unpack what are six of the most common beliefs and identities that I see keeping women stuck in this ongoing cycle of stress.

And so the invitation as you listen, see which one you identify with the most, and that's where there's gonna be opportunity for you to gain the greatest growth and freedom.