BY Wellness

You wake up tired. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind that lives in your bones. The kind that follows you through your coffee, through your meetings, through the smile you put on for everyone else while something inside quietly asks: why do I still feel this way? Your stomach is off. Your skin is acting up again. You're doing everything right on paper and your body still feels like it's working against you. Here's what nobody told you. Your body is not broken. Your body is keeping score. Every year of performing under pressure. Every belief that said rest is weakness and worth has to be earned. Every morning your nervous system woke up already in threat mode before the day even started. That stress didn't disappear. It went somewhere. It went into your cortisol. Into your gut lining. Into the inflammation no supplement has touched. Into the skin that keeps breaking out no matter what you put on it. Into the exhaustion that eight hours of