Cortisol Isn't the Enemy: Why the Goal Is Recovery, Not Less Stress

Cortisol has become the latest casualty of our obsession with making biology binary. Good hormone versus bad hormone. Regulated, dysregulated. Safe, unsafe. And somewhere inside this endless conversation about lowering cortisol, balancing cortisol, or avoiding a spike, we've forgotten something fundamental about being alive: your body was not designed for the absence of stress. It was designed for a relationship with it. In this episode, Britt Piper, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, helps ...