When My Body Wouldn’t Let Me Rest

Chronic stress often lives quietly in the body—showing up as tension, fatigue, anxiety, or symptoms we can’t always explain. In this reflection, I share how my own experience with burnout and grief revealed the ways the nervous system adapts to prolonged stress, and how healing begins not by fixing the body, but by learning to listen to it. This is an invitation back into steadiness, one small moment at a time.