the hidden reason why you randomly cry when your stress levels spike 👇🏼 ever wonder why you suddenly find yourself crying during times of high stress? 🥹 it's not just emotional overwhelm—it's also your body responding to the surge of cortisol flooding your system 😮‍💨 prolonged stress keeps your cortisol levels high for extended periods of time, which disrupts your normal brain functioning, causing your prefrontal cortex and your amygdala to have a more difficult time with emotional regulati

why you can’t cry anymore—what you need to know 👇🏼 if you’ve been through a lot of trauma or stress over a prolonged period of time, your emotions, your body & your nervous system can start to shutdown 🥹 this isn’t your fault! it is an automatic, physiological reaction to the amount of trauma you’ve gone through 😮‍💨 your emotions, your body, & your nervous system start to shutdown in an effort to protect you from experiencing more trauma & stress 🥹 (this is called dorsal vagal shutdown) 🙌