Youre not broken, youre just holding too much cortisol #shorts

Comment “𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗕𝗦” if you want to know which adaptogenic herbs I use to support my adrenals. One week of high cortisol can disrupt your hormones for three months. This truth changed everything for me. Every time you're in fight-or-flight, your body diverts resources away from reproduction, digestion, and repair. Progesterone drops. Thyroid slows. Sleep suffers. And it doesn't just bounce back when the stress ends. I learned this after a stressful period where my cycle stayed off for months—even after things calmed down. The hormonal damage outlasted the actual stress. Now I interrupt the cascade immediately. At the first sign of stress building, I do my cortisol-lowering protocol: sauna to sweat out stress hormones, adaptogenic herbs for adrenal support, and Hormone Yoga sequences to signal safety to my system. You can't always control the stress. But you can control how quickly your body recovers. And that's everything.