So many of us are operating on stress responses we don’t even realize we have. patterns that once might have helped us cope or succeed, but are now quietly fuelling burnout, overwhelm, and disconnection.

In today’s episode, I explore what I call stress signatures - the unconscious nervous system adaptations that shape how you show up under pressure. These patterns aren’t personality traits or flaws, they are survival strategies your body learned early on in life, often without your awareness.

I’ll unpack these different stress signatures, how they form, why they often go unnoticed, and what happens when they start limiting your growth or sabotaging your success. I’ll also guide you through a reflective journaling practice to help you identify your own signature, explore where it came from, and begin imagining new ways of living.

You’ll also hear why mindset alone isn’t enough to shift these deeply embedded patterns, and how building somatic awareness and working with your nervous system can help you move out of survival mode towards a more sustainable way of being.

If you’re someone who tends to push through, people-please, over-manage, or shut down under stress, then this episode will help you understand what’s happening underneath, and how to start creating space for something new.

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Related episode:

- Episode 37: Breaking the Cycle of Burnout with Emma Matthews

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