When Did You Last Actually Stop? What Chronic Stress is Doing to Your Adrenals

Why the cranky, exhausted, wired-but-tired cycle is not a character flaw and what to do about it.

I want to describe someone to you.

She snaps at her kids over something small the spilled cup, the shoes left out again and immediately feels guilty. She is exhausted but cannot get to sleep. She is running on caffeine and willpower and a quiet background hum of anxiety that she has started to think of as just her personality. She catches every cold that comes through the school and takes twice as long as everyone else to recover. She knows she needs to slow down. She cannot see how.