It started quietly. A heaviness in my chest. A tightness in my stomach. A lingering fog in my mind. I had learned to ignore these signals for years – headaches, body aches, exhaustion, nights I couldn’t sleep – all part of the background noise. But one day, it became impossible to ignore.
The subtle ways my body carried the stress I refused to see. The creeping exhaustion that sleep couldn’t fix. The extra weight that slowly settled in, like a reminder that something wasn’t right. The constant aches and pains – one week it was my head, the next my stomach, the next something else – as…