When life feels full and stressful, your nervous system feels it too. In this episode of UPLEVEL: Real Health, Real Talk, Dr. Jenna unpacks how chronic stress and packed schedules impact cortisol, metabolism, and sleep, and why teaching your body to feel safe is the key to lasting energy. She shares practical tools to regulate your system, including a 60-second breath reset, mini pauses between tasks, setting clear boundaries that prevent overwhelm, and nighttime rituals that signal the day is done. Dr. Jenna also discusses how self-compassion and forgiveness lower cortisol, calm inflammation, and improve health outcomes over time. By understanding how stress physiology connects to mindset, you can begin to meet each moment differently and recover your energy from within. Tune in for actionable, evidence-based practices to support a calm, resilient body through every season of life!
Key Points From This Episode:
- How stress, schedules, and your nervous system shape your energy this time of year.
- Why cortisol isn’t the enemy, but becomes an issue when it never turns off.
- Using nervous system regulation and vagus nerve activation to restore calm and balance.
- Why you can’t heal or metabolize well in a body that doesn’t feel safe.
- How flipped cortisol rhythms cause exhaustion by day and restlessness by night.
- Understanding when resistance is a sign of overload, not lack of willpower.
- Why true success comes from flow, not force or constant pushing.
- Calming your body with one-minute breathing resets that lower cortisol.
- Using mini pauses to reset your energy between daily tasks.
- Setting boundaries to calm your nervous system and reduce stress.
- Creating evening rituals that cue the body that it’s safe to rest.
- The role of self-compassion and forgiveness in calming cortisol.
- Action step: pick one daily practice to pause, simplify, and support your body.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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