You can do all the right things: therapy, exercise, mindset work. Yet, you still feel on edge. This feeling is common and often misunderstood. The reason is that trauma and chronic stress do not only affect your thoughts—they live deep within your nervous system. When your sympathetic nervous system, responsible for the fight-or-flight response, becomes dysregulated, it can lead to hypervigilance, irritability, poor sleep, anxiety, brain fog, and emotional reactivity. This is