Why your stress still lingers after everything’s “done” Hi Reader, I’m writing this to you directly because I don’t think what you’re dealing with is a motivation issue or a mindset gap. It looks more like a system that hasn’t been given enough signal that it’s allowed to recover. When pressure stays high for long enough, the nervous system adapts by staying alert. Not dramatically. Quietly. You still function. You still perform. But everything starts costing more energy than it should....