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Maya noticed the first clue on a Sunday. She had slept nine hours, yet her jaw ached and her shoulders bristled as if she had sprinted through the night. Monday brought the familiar loop: revise the email, rewrite the slide, double check the budget, rerun the model. By Wednesday she skipped lunch. By Friday she blamed herself for the skipped lunch. When Maya sat down in my office, she did not describe anxiety or sadness. She described standards. She described an internal ru

The ground does not need to shake for the body to keep looking for tremors. After a wildfire, hurricane, or flood, many survivors describe a similar confusion. The house is still standing, or maybe it is gone, but either way the nervous system continues to scan for the next siren. Sleep is thin. Food smells off. Conversations are shorter. People who once shrugged off storms now flinch at a gust of wind. If this sounds familiar, you are not broken. Your body adapted fast to